[linux-dvb] Re: VDR 0.80pre5

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Henning Holtschneider wrote:
> 
> > - After heavy channel switching (or at some time after the EPG scanner
> kicks in)
> >   channels don't sync any more. Maybe there's still a problem in the
> driver here?
> 
> With the new Hauppauge model in my PC, this problem makes the whole system
> unusable at the moment. Most of the time, I cannot even switch 4-5 (!) times
> before I get either
> 
> - a "channel not sync'ed" message and the screen remains black or
> 
> - horizontal stripes and an outcommand error followed by an ARM reset. Look
> at the image at ftp://ftp.loca.net/pub/vdr/crash.jpg for an example.
> 
> I tried ntuxzap this morning and I've got the same problems there, except
> that I don't get the stripes. ntuxzap just hangs after a couple of channel
> switches and I have to da a "make reload". It doesn't matter if I switch
> quickly or wait a while and it also doesn't matter if I switch between
> channels on the same transponder or on different transponders.
> 
> Most of the time, the latest VDR 0.80pre5 will now recover automatically
> from these errors and restart automatically so I *only* have to wait 60
> seconds until I can use it again but the situation is very unsatisfying. Are
> there any chances that we will see an improvement of the new tuner support
> in the near future?

It's the same with the original Siemens DVB-S card (the "old" one).
Since you also have the problem with ntuxzap I guess it is safe to assume
that the problem is in the driver, not in VDR.

Klaus
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