there is almost no EIT scan on systems with just a single budget card and software decoding solution

[rnissl at gmx.de (Reinhard Nissl)]

Hi,

I've been wondering for quite a while why I do not see a EIT scan to 
happen on my system.

I had a look into (VDR-1.3.24's) eitscan.c:19-20. These lines contain 
the following conditions (wrapped to separate lines for readability):

    if (Device != cDevice::PrimaryDevice()
       || (cDevice::NumDevices() == 1
          && Setup.EPGScanTimeout
          && now - lastActivity > Setup.EPGScanTimeout * 3600)) {

       if (!(Device->Receiving(true)
            || Device->Replaying())) {

A setup like mine has two devices: the first one is the budget card and 
the second one is provided by the vdr-xine plugin, with the latter 
beeing the primary device. So, the first "if" only selects the budget 
card and ignores Setup.EPGScanTimeout completely, as 
cDevice::NumDevices() is 2, which is not == 1.

Then, the second "if" blocks as the budget card is receiving most of the 
time, as it feeds the transfer thread which replays on the primary device.

So a system like mine will only do an EIT scan while I'm watching a 
recording. Furthermore, it won't stop transfer mode to start an EIT scan 
on it's own after Setup.EPGScanTimeout hours.

I currently have no idea how to solve this issue.

Bye.
-- 
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx