[linux-dvb] Re: A/V dropouts when switching section filters

[Alfred Zastrow <dvb@zastrow4u.de>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > - If I disable the StartSectionHandler() call in VDR's cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice(),
> >  the problem does not occur, so I guess it must have to do with section
> >  filtering.
Here too,

I have less problems with vdr with my two 1.3 cards using the 
brsv2-driver (probably this one tunes faster)
And I have no problems since I use this patch for vdr from Andreas Share:

--------------------- schnipp --------------------------------

diff -ruN vdr-1.3.11_org/device.c vdr-1.3.11/device.c
--- vdr-1.3.11_org/device.c	2004-08-05 21:48:47.785415832 +0200
+++ vdr-1.3.11/device.c	2004-08-05 21:51:54.699000648 +0200
@@ -433,6 +433,10 @@
         sectionHandler->SetChannel(NULL);
         }
      if (SetChannelDevice(Channel, LiveView)) {
+	//Start section handler threat after first tune
+	if (!sectionHandler) {
+	   StartSectionHandler();
+	   }
         // Start section handling:
         if (sectionHandler) {
            sectionHandler->SetChannel(Channel);
diff -ruN vdr-1.3.11_org/dvbdevice.c vdr-1.3.11/dvbdevice.c
--- vdr-1.3.11_org/dvbdevice.c	2004-08-05 21:48:47.787415528 +0200
+++ vdr-1.3.11/dvbdevice.c	2004-08-05 21:49:25.471686648 +0200
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@

   aPid1 = aPid2 = 0;

-  StartSectionHandler();
+//  StartSectionHandler();
 }

 cDvbDevice::~cDvbDevice()

--------------------- schnapp --------------------------------


My guess is that received garbage (because of slow tuning) disturbes the 
section filters.


Alfred