DVBLast on ubuntu

[joolzg]

I have a funny old problem with DVBLast, had this since the first time i installed it.

I have a server which has runsv on and controls the stopping and starting of dvblast to stream channels only my network, this all works really well but sometimes when runsv restarts a stream dvblast does not lock the channel i want, i have put a '-O 10000' in the command line so dvblast will quit after 10 seconds of no lock, and in this case runsv will restart dvblast within 3 seconds.

But 99 times out of 100 if i run the exact same command from the commandline 'sudo dvblast -f xx -s xx -c xx.conf' , i get a lock, 99% of the time 1st time.

Anybody have any ideas as to why this happens, or a fix, as sometimes it takes 5 minutes for the runsv dvblast to get a lock.

joolz

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hmm, are you sure your DVB device driver is working correctly? Some of the Linux DVB drivers are riddled with race conditions.

[joolzg]

Yep works fine well as long as it gets lock.

The problem is not that it does not work, works really well and stable, until i have to reset the machine, then it can take 10 minutes to start streaming.

Now if i run dvblast from the command line, it works 99/100 times.

joolz