[linux-dvb] new driver / cvs

[Thomas Brendel <TBrendel@t-online.de>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:30:10 +0200, J rgen Tvedt wrote:

>
>> Sounds like the (well know) driver problem with switching channels.
>> Every now and then the driver gets into a state where it fails to set
>> one or more of the PIDs, and therefore VDR assumes the channels was not
>> set correctly. What we really need is a more stable channel switching in
>the
>> driver - or somebody who finds a flaw in VDR's channel switching code (see
>dvbapi.c,
>> function cDvbApi::SetChannel).
>
>I have done som channel switching test between Sat1 and
>Pro7, and after just a couple of switches ( < 10) I get a black
>screen, and these log messages:
>switching to channel 52
>switching to channel 51
>switching to channel 52
>ERROR: channel 52 not sync'ed!
>panic level: 0
>retrying
>ERROR: channel 52 not sync'ed!
>panic level: 1
>retrying
>ERROR: channel 52 not sync'ed!
>panic level: 2
>retrying
>
>I tracked this down to the automatic FEC sensing, and tried this:
>
>if not ChannelSynced
>  set FEC_inner = FEC_3_4  (this is the correct FEC for Sat1 and Pro7)
>  ioctl(fd_qpskfe, QPSK_TUNE, &qpsk)
>
>This works every time. This is the log:
>
>switching to channel 52
>switching to channel 51
>switching to channel 52
>ERROR: channel 52 not sync'ed!   <- FEC_AUTO
>switching to channel 51
>ERROR: channel 51 not sync'ed!
>switching to channel 52
>ERROR: channel 52 not sync'ed!
>switching to channel 51
>ERROR: channel 51 not sync'ed!
>switching to channel 1
>
Hi

I've never worked with cvs before, so what do I have to do to get a current dvb-driver?
Is there a way to download the driver without cvs?

And is there a reason that none of the 0.9.x-drivers can be downloaded from linuxtv.org any more?

Gruesse aus Oberhausen
	Thomas Brendel




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