Peter, thanks for your reply to the list - very helpful. On 7/6/05, Peter Beutner <p.beutner@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Appearently there are two things which let mythtv hang during channel scan: > - as the driver always reports a signal lock mythtv waits forever when > it has tuned to a frequency where is no signal at all > - a filter mask(other than 0xff) for section filter doesnt work > I attach two patches which should resolve these issues. The first one, > implementing the signal status readout, should be pretty safe. Im using > it quite some time now. Just hadn't found time to send it here. The > second one is more a better guess, but it seems to do the right thing, > eg channel scanning with mythtv works for me. Hope it doesnt break any > other stuff, although I think it shouldnt ... > So you may give them a try ;) Thanks - I patched the files concerned (manually - for some reason the patches wouldn't take), and they compiled, when I found a version in CVS I can use! Apparently dvb-kernel CVS swapped over to insisting on 2.6.13rc+ yesterday? Anyway, I've patched CVS code from the 6th June (using 2.6.12.2 here). > > Using tzap feeding into mplayer on stdin it seems to tune into > > the first few channels I try, but then mplayer rigidly sticks > > at 0% cache, and refuses to tune in until I reboot (card/module > > removal/reinsertion doesn't seem to help). > > I guess the decoder chip on the box locks up. If you look in your kernel > log when that happens, you probably will see lots of "bulk message > failed" errors. At least I see this quite often here after some channel > zapping. Im still trying to find the real reason for these lockups. No I don't see any such messages, unless I need to turn verbosity up somewhere? Again last night, same experience - I managed to tune into one channel with tzap -> mplayer, which locked up after maybe 10 seconds, and now I can't tune into any. I had no problems whatsoever in dvb-kernel/apps from 2004-12-26 and an earlier 2.6 kernel, so I'm really stuck here. Is there anything else I can do or am I stranded with dvb-kernel now and this box?
