On 21 Nov 2010, at 13:07, Robert Longbottom wrote: > > > On 21 Nov 2010, at 11:40 AM, Andre <linux-me...@dinkum.org.uk> wrote: > >> >> On 20 Nov 2010, at 19:22, Oliver Endriss wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Saturday 20 November 2010 16:52:34 Robert Longbottom wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have a Satix-S2 Dual that I'm trying to get to work properly so that I >>>> can use it under MythTv however I'm running into a few issues. I >>>> previously posted about the problems I'm having here to the mythtv >>>> list[1], but didn't really get anywhere. I've had chance to have a bit >>>> more of a play and I now seem to have a definite repeatable problem. >>>> >>>> The problem is when a recording stops on one of the inputs, after about >>>> 40s it causes the other input to loose it's signal lock and stop the >>>> recording as well. >>>> >>>> >>>> Steps to demonstrate the problem (My Satix card is adapters 5 and 6) >>>> >>>> In 3 seperate terminals set up femon/szap/cat to make a recording from >>>> one of the inputs: >>>> >>>> 1 - femon -a 6 -f 0 -H >>>> 2 - szap -a 6 -f 0 -d 0 -r -H -p -c scanResult07Oct2010_Satix -l >>>> UNIVERSAL "BBC 1 London" >>>> 3 - cat /dev/dvb/adapter6/dvr0 > ad6.mpg >>>> >>>> In 2 seperate terminals tune in the other input: >>>> >>>> 4 - femon -a 5 -f 0 -H >>>> 5 - szap -a 5 -f 0 -d 0 -r -H -p -c scanResult07Oct2010_Satix -l >>>> UNIVERSAL "ITV1 London" >>>> >>>> Both inputs are fine, signal is good, recording from adapter 6 works. >>>> >>>> 6 - Ctrl-C the szap process created in (5). >>>> >>>> femon in (4) still reports status=SCVYL and decent signal strengh as if >>>> the adapter is still tuned and FE_HAS_LOCK. After approximately 40 >>>> seconds, either: >>>> >>>> a) the signal drops significantly but the status remains at SCVYL and >>>> FE_HAS_LOCK >>>> >>>> or >>>> >>>> b) the signal drops and the status goes blank with no lock. >>>> >>>> It doesn't seem to matter which of these two happen, but at the same >>>> time the recording on the other tuner looses it signal and stops >>>> recording, despite the fact that szap is still running in (2). femon in >>>> (1) no longer reports FE_HAS_LOCK. >>>> >>>> Strangely if I then try to restart the szap process created in terminal >>>> 2 (to try and retune it) it just waits after printing out "using >>>> '/dev/dvb/....". However if I then restart the szap process in terminal >>>> 5, the one in terminal 2 suddenly kicks in and gets a lock. >>>> >>>> Interestingly I found a link describing a 60s period the card is kept >>>> open for [2], which seems to be similar to my ~40s delay. So it looks >>>> like when the second input on the card is closed the first input looses >>>> it's lock. >>>> >>>> This obviously makes it pretty useless for MythTv and as a result it's >>>> not currently being used, which is a shame! >>>> >>>> I'm using the ngene driver from the stock 2.6.35.4 kernel on Gentoo. >>>> >>>> Does anyone else see this problem? Is there anything I can do to try >>>> and fix / debug it? Are there any bug fixes in the latest kernel that >>>> might help, or in the linux-dvb drivers that would help? >>>> >>>> Any help or advice much appreciated. >>> >>> Please try this driver: >>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/ngene-test2 >> >> Well that's progress, trying Robert's procedure fails with my stock driver >> (Ubuntu 10.10's 2.6.35-22-generic) but recording continues with your >> ngene-test2 driver :-) >> >> NB I needed to go grab ngene_18.fw before it would work and I have three >> unexpected extra frontends, adapter 0,1&2 as well as the configured 5&6, not >> sure what's going on there yet! >> >> There's a ber bump on the other tuner when you retune but it carries on >> which is the main thing at this stage. Can see glitches at the corresponding >> spot in the recording but worth a try with Myth perhaps? >> >> I've been running with only one of the tuners for months, perhaps best to >> switch off active eit collection though looking at that ber bump. >> >> Great stuff Oliver. >> >> Andre >> >> > > That does sound like good news, I'll try and give it a go later today now > that I have a process to test with. If it does appear to have fixed it then > I'll switch myth over to using it later next week and see how it gets on.
I tried it with Myth 0.24 and just got six simultaneous HD recordings out of it :-)) total seven if you count the one I started to keep the HD-S2 card busy, can't try any more with that sat and my sub. No glitches I can see, tried it a couple of times with different muxes, so far so good. > > Will report back with the results later. You can have your thread back now ;-) Andre > > Robert. > >> >>> >>> CU >>> Oliver >>> >>> -- >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ >>> 4 MByte Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-mem-mod/ >>> Full-TS Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-full-ts-mod/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in >>> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
