[vdr] another EPG scan issue

[Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>]

besides the "not leaving transfer mode after recording finished"
preventing an EPG scan, I've got another issue with this: the teletext
plugin. This plugin is always receiving, so preventing the EPG scan,
too.

For my private VDR, I made the following patch to VDR-1.2.1:

--- eitscan.c.orig      2003-07-03 05:57:28.000000000 +0200
+++ eitscan.c   2003-08-03 14:40:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -59,3 +59,3 @@
                if (Device != cDevice::PrimaryDevice() || (cDevice::NumDevices() == 1 && Setup.EP
GScanTimeout && now - lastActivity > Setup.EPGScanTimeout * 3600)) {
-                  if (!(Device->Receiving(true) || Device->Replaying())) {
+                  if (!(Device->Receiving() || Device->Replaying())) {
                      for (;;) {
@@ -68,2 +68,3 @@
                                   }
+                              isyslog ("EPG scan on channel %d", Channel->Number());
                                Device->SwitchChannel(Channel, false);


It works at least for me. But I'm not shure what's the difference between
Device-Receiving() and Device->Receiving(true). I think it has something to
do with priorities, but I don't understand the code (I'm quite very bad in
reading C++).

It looks like the Teletext receiver has a very low priority, which is ignored by
the EPG scanner with above patch.

I'm not shure if this solves the transfer mode problem, too. If the priority of
the receiver thread after finished recording would be low enough, it should work.
But I never tried...

@Klaus: would you accept an entry to your 1.3 wishlist "forced EPG scan via OSD
and/or SVDRCP (VDRadmin)?"


bye, Michael


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