Simon Detheridge wrote:
Hi,
On my system, mplayer sometimes (but not always) requires two attempts to
tune into a dvb channel when launched with a dvb:// url. (For example,
'mplayer "dvb://BBC ONE"' -- The first time, it comes up with "TUNING
FAILED", but the second time it almost invariably works fine.
I had a similar problem with my AverTV A800 DVB-T-tuner, i.e. after
getting the first lock I had to clic on stop and then on play (with VLC)
to start the video flux. This is still okay when looking TV on the
screen but not when one wants to record a program this is big problem.
Therefore I used as a work around a small script like:
tzap -r M6 -x -S
vlc (all dvb-options)
here tzap gets the first lock and then quits due to the option "-x" and
then afterwards the second lock obtained in VLC works (with DVB-S it's
szap etc.).
My guess is it takes my dvb card longer to tune than mplayer expects??
Anyway, this causes problems for freevo and suchlike which fire up mplayer
to do things like view and record TV.
I'm currently running mplayer with a wrapper script that relaunches it
with the same parameters if it greps "TUNING FAILED" in sterr, but
obviously this is very ungraceful and is probably going to break other
things.
Is there a way to make this problem go away? Perhaps a --be-persistent
flag? Or... ?
I don't know if you have the same problem (this may depend on your
DVB-card) but my problem disappeard with the v4l-driver from the kernel
version 2.6.18 and the with latest driver from the official v4l-tree.
Maybe un update to the latest driver may solve your problem ? Otherwise
try a workaround using tzap (ou szap, ...).
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