Opened 19 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#344 closed patch (fixed)

DVB EIT fails to insert event data into database

Reported by: tomimo@… Owned by: danielk
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.20
Component: mythtv Version: head
Severity: low Keywords: DVB EIT
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

I'm currently testing with the latest devel-branch of mythtv (SVN 7265) with mythbackend -v channel,siparser,schedule options and with EIT_DEBUG_SID=49.

For some reason the DVB EIT fails to insert the retrieved short event descriptor data (0x4D) into the database. It does seem to get gathered up into Qmap (if I understand correctly), but after that it starts to loop with the "EventHandler::AddSection?" messages over and over again. To me it looks like everything would be just fine if the looping would end at some point and the gathered event data would be emitted to the database. However, the event handles logic seems little bit unclear to me.

I also tried to comment out the couple of lines of code in SIParser::ParseDescLinkage? in siparser.cpp (Kristian Kalweit problem) without success.

The log file is over 500KB's long and I've therefore stored it in http://ncircle.nullnet.fi/mythtv/eit.log .

Attachments (7)

eit.log.bz2 (24.8 KB) - added by tomimo@… 19 years ago.
Copy of the above mentioned DVB EIT debug log with -v channel,siparser,schedule & #define EIT_DEBUG_SID 49
eit9.log.bz2 (20.0 KB) - added by tomimo@… 19 years ago.
mythbackend (SVN7373) debug log with -v channel,siparser,schedule & #define EIT_DEBUG_SID 49
eit.debug.patch (2.1 KB) - added by John Pullan <john.pullan@…> 18 years ago.
Extra debug for sitypes.cpp
mythbackend.log.bz2 (129.4 KB) - added by tomimo@… 18 years ago.
Mythbackend log with John Pullan's EIT debug log patch (Warning, this is ridiculous in size when uncompressed ... 40MB)
eit.patch (4.3 KB) - added by John Pullan <john.pullan@…> 18 years ago.
Please try (applies against current svn)
eit.2.patch (4.3 KB) - added by John Pullan <john.pullan@…> 18 years ago.
Slight miskate in the patch (oops)
mythbackend.log.2.bz2 (219.0 KB) - added by tomimo@… 18 years ago.
Mythbackend debug log with eit.2.patch and EIT_DEBUG_SID 49

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Change History (27)

Changed 19 years ago by tomimo@…

Attachment: eit.log.bz2 added

Copy of the above mentioned DVB EIT debug log with -v channel,siparser,schedule & #define EIT_DEBUG_SID 49

comment:1 Changed 19 years ago by anonymous

This is what I get too, my fix was to change this in mythtv/libs/libmythtv/siparser.cpp line ~1286

  • x < ((head->section_number&0xF8)+8); x++)

+ x < ((head->section_number&0xF8)+32); x++)

I have asked on the list how this should be fixed "properly" but got no response. I also need the "Kristian Kalweit" fix.

I don't need either on my other provder, only the cable one.

comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by tomimo@…

Unfortunately this one-liner did not fix my problems with DVB EIT looping and not emitting anything into the database. I don't fully understand why not marking event slots as unused would result none of the events to be delivered ...

I tried the patch with and without the so called "Kristian Kalweit" fix, without success.

comment:3 Changed 19 years ago by xris

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [7286]) breaks compatibility with pre-svn. now scans the database for filenames instead of searching for them. hopefully closes #344

comment:4 Changed 19 years ago by xris

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

my bad. typo'd a commit message.

Changed 19 years ago by tomimo@…

Attachment: eit9.log.bz2 added

mythbackend (SVN7373) debug log with -v channel,siparser,schedule & #define EIT_DEBUG_SID 49

comment:5 Changed 19 years ago by tomimo@…

I have included an updated mythbackend debug log with -v siparser,channel,schedule created with SVN7373. It seems that the new EIT auto crawler code has not changed anything related to this particular bug ---> nothing is still being inserted into database, although EIT events are being read & parsed from the channels. The log messages from "EventHandler::AddSection?" seem to loop around for ever without completing (same channel all time long).

comment:6 Changed 18 years ago by Isaac Richards

Owner: changed from Isaac Richards to danielk
Status: reopenednew

comment:7 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
Type: defectenhancement

Until someone has a patch to add this feature, I'm closing the ticket.

There is some support for short descriptors, and hence the messages, but it is not complete. DVB EIT guide insertion currently requires long DVB EIT descriptors. If someone is interested in writing the code to make guide insertion work with short DVB EIT descriptors I'll review it. Make sure not to break things for people that have both long and short descriptors.

comment:8 Changed 18 years ago by john.pullan@…

Daniel has asked me to try and look into this. Can you please update to the latest svn and retest, (to see if it's been fixed as part of something else). Failing that I'll try and help.

NB I don't have dvb-c and EIT just works for me so this could be a bit drawn out. I'll reopen the ticket once I/we get some response.

comment:9 Changed 18 years ago by john.pullan@…

Resolution: wontfix
Status: closedreopened

Sigh, still a problem it seems.

comment:10 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Milestone: 0.20
Severity: mediumlow

comment:11 Changed 18 years ago by John Pullan <john.pullan@…>

Could you apply the attached patch and post the logs please. It adds (lots) more debug to sitypes.cpp to hopefully give us a clue as to what's happening.

Changed 18 years ago by John Pullan <john.pullan@…>

Attachment: eit.debug.patch added

Extra debug for sitypes.cpp

Changed 18 years ago by tomimo@…

Attachment: mythbackend.log.bz2 added

Mythbackend log with John Pullan's EIT debug log patch (Warning, this is ridiculous in size when uncompressed ... 40MB)

comment:12 Changed 18 years ago by tomimo@…

John,

It looks like your debug patch did find something interesting from the EIT event handling. It does seem to print "tracker not setup" over and over again for this particular service id.

comment:13 Changed 18 years ago by tomimo@…

Hmm, I forgot to add that the event-handling in this particular cable-bnetwork is not totally "dead", ie. the system DOES pickup EIT information for some channels every once in a while, it just doesn't seem to work consistently all the time. For example right now the problematic channels have only a few days of worth of EIT information, while a different mux seems to be able to gather up 7 days of events.

The overall behaviour has changed in some ways, because a couple of weeks ago there was absolutely no events available by mythtv for any mux. Perhaps the recent PMT changes did change something, although not everything is working properly at the moment.

Changed 18 years ago by John Pullan <john.pullan@…>

Attachment: eit.patch added

Please try (applies against current svn)

comment:14 Changed 18 years ago by John Pullan <john.pullan@…>

Could you please try this patch.

Provides possible fix Change to the debug patch Fix to the "no services" debug (ahem) Remove references to tracker not being setup

Changed 18 years ago by John Pullan <john.pullan@…>

Attachment: eit.2.patch added

Slight miskate in the patch (oops)

Changed 18 years ago by tomimo@…

Attachment: mythbackend.log.2.bz2 added

Mythbackend debug log with eit.2.patch and EIT_DEBUG_SID 49

comment:15 Changed 18 years ago by tomimo@…

Thanks John,

Don't know what the debug log exactly tells you, but to me it looks like the system is not looping anymore! And it looks like the system does have the full (7 days worth of ) EIT-information for all of the currently tuned channels.

comment:16 Changed 18 years ago by john@…

Type: enhancementpatch

The last version of the patch addresses two issues

1) Pulling wasn't being set. 2) Even if it were set, there was a large chance on non UK transmitters that only the first table for a service id was being emitted. If a provider sent all of table 0x50 followed by all of table 0x51 then because table 0x50 filled up it's sections first we would emit it but mark the entire channel as being updated. Table 0x51 would then arrive and fill up, but would never be emitted.

comment:17 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

(In [7573]) References #344.

This applies John Pullan's patch + some minor cleanups It also adds an "-v eit" param to mythbackend which allows you to see all the EIT debugging messages.

comment:18 Changed 18 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Type: patchenhancement

I wonder if this issue could be also be affected by the data sections never being delivered. The thread

http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-September/004914.html

discusses the fact that very small or very large sections that closely follow each other could be lost. This is apparently a situation that can occur quite a bit with DSMCC, EIT and other data streams.

The thread continues in October

http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-October/005540.html

comment:19 Changed 18 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Type: enhancementpatch

That last comment wasn't supposed to change the type

comment:20 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

fixed in svn now

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