[linux-dvb] Re: Dopouts again

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

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > The following change between driver versions 2002-11-11 and 2002-11-15
> > brought back the dropouts in live tv when recording on a second DVB card:
> >
> > --- DVB.2002-11-11/driver/dvb_frontend.c        Mon Nov 11 22:50:26 2002
> > +++ DVB.2002-11-15/driver/dvb_frontend.c        Fri Nov 15 15:43:59 2002
> > @@ -472,7 +468,7 @@
> >                         fe->lost_sync_count = 0;
> >                 } else {
> >                         fe->lost_sync_count++;
> > -                       if (fe->lost_sync_count < 10)  /* XXX FIXME CHECKME! */
> > +                       if (fe->lost_sync_count < 4)  /* XXX FIXME CHECKME! */
> >                                 continue;
> >                         dvb_frontend_recover (fe);
> >                         delay = HZ/5;
> >
> > @Holger: can you please set that back to 10 again? There were no problems with 10.
> > I didn't test and values between 4 and 10 though, but since 10 works stable I
> > suggest we take that.
> 
> Hmm, didn't you reported a value of 3 working fine??

Maybe that was with live viewing alone (not sure if I remember correctly).
Anyway, with '4' it didn't work any more as soon as a recording was going
on on my second DVB card. I explicitly tested the latest driver version
with '10' and it worked fine again.

> Well, I'll set it
> back to 10 - it was just an attempt to start the zigzag scan a little
> earlier if required...

Thanks.

Klaus
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