[vdr] Re: Picture dropouts with NEWSTRUCT

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

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> I have just tried the latest NEWSTRUCT driver with VDR 1.1.9,
> but the problem that the picture and sound drops out every few
> seconds still persists.
> 
> Can anybody else reproduce this? Just load the NEWSTRUCT driver
> as it comes from the CVS, compile VDR 1.1.9 (or 1.1.8, doesn't matter)
> with NEWSTRUCT=1 and run it. It will switch to the current channel,
> and after a few seconds the picture will drop black and come back
> after a short while. It would appear that this happens more often
> on the Sat.1/Pro7 transponder than on the RTL transponder.
> 
> This doesn't happen with the "old" driver, at least not the one I'm
> using (based on CVS 2002-06-23, with the latest NEWSTRUCT firmware).

Thanks to everybody who took the time to test this.

Here's a summary of the results:

    kernel   DVB card                 status

1   2.4.18   2 DVBs rev 2.1           ok
2   2.4.18   1 dvb-s v1.5             ok
3   2.4.19   1 Hauppauge DVB-s v1.3   ok
4   2.4.18   3 Dvbs Rev 1.3           dropouts
5   2.4.10   2 DVB-S rev1.3, 1 NOVA   dropouts
6   2.4.18   2 DVB-S rev1.3, 1 NOVA   dropouts

So, 4...6 would indicate that the problem is only with rev 1.3 cards,
but 3 contradicts that. I just tried it with kernel 2.4.18 (result #6)
and had the same dropouts as with 2.4.10.

@Holger Wächtler: do you have any ideas what could cause this behaviour?
                  Maybe some hints where in the driver I should add some debug
                  outputs to see what might be going wrong?
                  I do believe that this must be a driver problem, since the exact
                  same hardware here works fine with the "old" driver (version 2002-06-23
                  on both kernel 2.4.10 and 2.4.18), but doesn't work with the NEWSTRUCT driver.

Klaus
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