<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Hans Werner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:HWerner4@gmx.de">HWerner4@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Hans Werner <<a href="mailto:HWerner4@gmx.de">HWerner4@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> > > If you have a stb0899 device, don't forget to add "-k 3".<br>> ><br>> > Oh. Can someone say what's different about the stb0899 here,<br>> > and how -k 3 helps ?<br>
><br>><br>> Since I've added it, I'll try to defend it :)<br>><br>> stb0899 driver (or maybe the chip?) has some buffers inside that are not<br>> reset between tunnings.<br>> In that case messages from *previous* channel will arrive after the<br>
> tunning<br>> to new channel is complete.<br>> Those messages will create a big mess in the results, such as channels<br>> without names, duplicate channels on different transponders.<br>> -k option specifies how many messages should be ignored before processing<br>
> it. I couldn't think of a more elegant way to ignore messages from<br>> previously tuned channel. I use "-k 3" by myself, but after playing around<br>> with "-k 2" saw that its also working. "-k 1" was still not enough.<br>
><br>> The proper way is to have an option to reset that buffer in the driver<br>> after<br>> tunning.<br>> Since I don't know how it can be done and how it will affect tunning of<br>> channels for viewing, I didn't want to go that way and solve it in<br>
> scan-s2.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> Alex.<br><br>OK, thanks, I will check if I see that problem. Which card(s)<br>did you see this with?<br>Hans</blockquote>
<div>I'm aware only about Twinhan 1041 and TT-3200 based stb0899 cards. Both have the same problem.</div>
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