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

["Thomas Bergwinkl" <bergwinkl.thomas@vr-web.de>]

Luca Olivetti wrote:
>
> Thomas Bergwinkl wrote:
> >
> > What's wrong with a long timeout? When the 'waiting for
> lock' would be
> > done in a thread, there needn't be a timeout at all. Vdr
> just would only
> > set pids when there is a lock.
>
> But that may be on the wrong satellite, so it should check
> that the dish
> is positioned before waiting for a lock. Anyway it has to be seen if
> waiting for a lock is really necessary.
>

Yes, you are right, it sometimes happens, that you get a lock from a
wrong satellite.
As Klaus wrote (
http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/07-2004/msg00347.html )
sometime ago there will be a new plugin interface that gets called
from the tuning thread of the cDevice. I think the check for the right
position should then be done there from the plugin.

Thomas