[vdr] Re: Fixed tuner lock detection

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

Dominique Simon wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag, 23. Oktober 2004 19:05 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> > Well, that still doesn't answer the question what exactly your patch
> > does that is _not_ in VDR 1.3.13. I'm afraid you'll need to isolate that.
> 
> I didn't do the patch and i am not a programmer, just a ordinary user ;). The
> original patch was posted some time ago on this mailinglist.
> 
> What about this:
> 
> +  /* discard stale events */
> +  dvb_frontend_event event;
> +  while (1)
> +  {
> +    if (ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_GET_EVENT, &event) == -1)
> +      break;
> +  }
> 
> Could this be the cure to the distortions i described when switching channels?
> If it is complete nonsense, i'll forget it, otherwise i would try to use your
> lockfix-patch and put the above code in to try it out.

This code is actually there, just in cDvbTuner::Action().
However, just like Wolfgang Fritz posted, I, too, never have
observed any "stale" events.

Klaus