Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#8137 closed defect (wontfix)

Error while tuning: timeout after 7000 ms

Reported by: Alberto Mattea <support.intranet@…> Owned by: Isaac Richards
Priority: trivial Milestone: unknown
Component: MythTV - General Version: head
Severity: low Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: yes

Description

On slow tuners/drivers, tuning can take more than 7000 ms (kMythSocketShortTimeout). Currently this makes mythfrontend hang. In the logs it is written: MythSocket?(887ddd8:40): readStringList: Error, timed out after 7000 ms. I've experienced this, for example, while switching from DVB-T to DVB-S with a Hauppauge HVR-4000. The quick solution is to raise the value of kMythSocketShortTimeout in mythtv/libs/libmythdb/mythsocket_cb.h (17000 ms worked for me), but it would be best to make it an option in mythtv-setup. This bug applies to all version I tested, up to current trunk. I'm attaching a very simple patch that raises the timeout to 20000 ms.

Attachments (1)

mythpatch (277 bytes) - added by Alberto Mattea <support.intranet@…> 14 years ago.
Simple patch to raise the timeout to 20000 ms

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Change History (10)

Changed 14 years ago by Alberto Mattea <support.intranet@…>

Attachment: mythpatch added

Simple patch to raise the timeout to 20000 ms

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by robertm

Milestone: 0.23unknown

Bumping to unknown, please don't set the milestone.

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by Alberto Mattea

Ok, sorry. But is it there a chance it will be solved in next version? It is so simple to solve :-) Thanks

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by Alberto Mattea

0.23 rc1 is out. Is it too late for a fix? It is so annoying to recompile it every time...

comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by robertm

Ticket locked: set

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comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by robertm

Priority: minortrivial
Severity: mediumlow

comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by robertm

Ticket locked: unset

comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by danielk

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

This is the wrong thing to be "fixing". The DVB tuners using a signal monitor which respond within a few milliseconds. If this isn't working we'll need to diagnose and fix that problem, not allow mythfrontend to lockup for 20 seconds.

comment:8 Changed 14 years ago by Alberto Mattea

Resolution: wontfix
Status: closednew

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. The issue here is not when tuning to a different channel (which takes only a second or so), but when switching between DVB-T and DVB-S. Since it is the same card that handles both, it must be completely reinitialized by the driver, which can take up to 10-12 seconds. I think there is nothing MythTV can do about that. Please don't take offence iif I reopen the ticket, and tell me if I understood your comment wrong.

comment:9 Changed 14 years ago by robertm

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
Ticket locked: set
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