[vdr] vdr-1.3.15 doesn't work well with a steerable dish

[Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>]

Following up my report lost in the announce thread.

vdr-1.3.15, with a budget card (skystar2) and a dxr3.

When the dish is moving the call

if (!HasLock(TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT)...

in cDevice::AttachReceiver is problematic since it's not enough time to 
reach the target satellite, causing an error (and displaying nothing 
once the position has been reached).
If I don't touch anything, after a while the dish moves again, but 
neither to the original channel nor to the new one: the original channel 
was at 13.0E, the new one was at 28.2E but the dish moved to 19.2E ?!?
Thomas Bergwinkl remarked that this is no problem with live view but 
only in transfer mode (and that's what using a dxr3 implies, I think). 
He also suggested to raise the TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT value, but I don't 
like that solution since vdr would become unresponsive during the 
movement of the dish.
I commented out that call altogether and it seems to work fine for live 
tv but not for recordings:

- with the dish positioned on hotbird (13E) I scheduled a recording on 
astra 2 (28.2E). No problems with this recording (the satellite switch 
from 13E to 28.2E takes around 20 seconds)

- then I scheduled a recording on hispasat (30W) and this didn't work 
(since it takes a lot more time, almost 2 minutes):

Nov  2 19:18:00 vdr vdr[971]: ERROR: thread 1195641776 won't end (waited 
200 se
conds) - cancelling it...
Nov  2 19:18:00 vdr vdr[971]: timer 1 (6059 1918-1921 'CCValenciana') start
Nov  2 19:18:04 vdr vdr[971]: record 
/home/vdr/video/CCValenciana/2004-11-02.19
:18.50.99.rec
Nov  2 19:18:06 vdr vdr[971]: switching to channel 4011
Nov  2 19:18:06 vdr vdr[971]: info: !Canal no disponible!
Nov  2 19:18:08 vdr vdr[971]: switching to channel 6059
Nov  2 19:18:36 vdr vdr[971]: ERROR: video data stream broken
Nov  2 19:18:36 vdr vdr[971]: initiating emergency exit
Nov  2 19:18:36 vdr vdr[971]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
Nov  2 19:18:37 vdr vdr[971]: timer 1 (6059 1918-1921 'CCValenciana') stop
Nov  2 19:18:37 vdr vdr[971]: saved setup to /home/vdr/conf/setup.conf


Note that the second test also fails the same way under 1.3.12 (only I 
never tried it before) so it's not a new problem.

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