[vdr] Re: DVB-c channel tuning/locking does not work 100% since VDR 1.1.19

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

just4all wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> as you all know since VDR 1.1.19 the Tuning is a single thread of course
> the channel switching is a lot faster now ..but with my DVB-c is does
> not work right.
> Some channels stay dark mostly when the channel is on another frequency.
> Then I have to wait for 5 min or longer until the tuning is done
> sometimes the tuning still did not work after an hour. When the TV stays
> black in VDR 1.1.19 or 1.1.20 there appears no error message in log
> files. When I switch to a "problem channel" in VDR 1.1.18 or earlier the
> following appears in the logs:            switching to channel 9
> 
> ERROR channel not locked on DVB Card ..retrying
> After the retry the picture appears. I heard that a driver change around
> the 11-01-2002 caused that the channels are not locked right. I also
> found a diff file ( http://gyre.weather.fi/~jaakko/dvb/ ) for
> dvb_frontend.c and ves1820.c witch tunes +- 0.125mhz to lock the channel
> right but it does not with my card. With this patch no channel tuning
> works anymore.
> Does anyone have the same Problem and found a workaround or something
> like that?
> Any hint is welcome!!!

There appears to be a problem with tuning on DVB-C cards. Please see the
other threads about this. I believe there is a patch for the driver that
cures this.

Klaus
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