Ville Vehvilainen wrote: >Hi all, > >The new(ish) TT DVB-C 1500 (stv0297 frontend) is still (as of current >CVS) problematic when tuning to QAM128 channels. Czap can usually lock >onto a channel after a few tries, but real apps such as Mplayer and >MythTV seem to usually lose their patience waiting for a lock. I >assume this is related to the various threads in July and August >concerning timeouts etc. > >I can get results with Mplayer about one try in three, but never with >MythTV. An older TT budget card (DVB-C 1.0, with VES1820 frontend) >works fine. > >Has any progress been made (by integrating the alternate stv0297 >driver, for instance)? I'll gladly test any patches and provide any >data if necessary. > > > in mplayer you can increase the timeout changing the default value to a (much) larger one in libmpdemux/dvb_tune.c. Sooner or later I'll add a command line option, but remind if I forget it :)
