Fix for no signal (cable:False) (1 Viewer)

[Mr Hipp]

Hi

I have having big problems with my recordings lately (I have analog cable), so I decided to investigate the problem.

There is a bug in the TvCardCollection constructor. It reads the serialized definition of a TV card, but it turns out that this definition is not complete. Two members are missing _isAnalogCable, _defaultCountryCode, so when this was read, the two missing memebers was set to false/0. Causing every recording to record static.

The fix for this is quite easy:

Add the following code to the constructor:
...
SoapFormatter c = new SoapFormatter();
ArrayList cards = (ArrayList)c.Deserialize(r);
int i = 1;

foreach (TVCaptureDevice dev in cards)
{
// Must be done since _isAnalogCable, _defaultCountryCode is not made serializable!
// In future; consider make them serializable and remove this.
dev.ID = i++;
dev.LoadDefinitions();

_tvcards.Add(dev);
}
r.Close();
...


Cheers

Mr Hipp

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

man thanks for looking into this! A problem which drove me crazy.

Could you please make the fix on the latest SVN and post the changed C#-file on Sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=107397&atid=647927

Thanks in advance.

Flip.

 

[Mr Hipp]

Done!

Mr Hipp

 

[vbgeezer]

Mr Hipp

What type of video card do you have? This has been driving me nuts and nearly caused divorce once or twice

It was all working so well for so long...that'll teach me to do daily updates

 

[Mr Hipp]

I have a hauppauge MCE 500, but I guess the problem could be for any analog card.

By the way this part of the code reaaly needs to be rewritten after the 0.2 release.

Is isAnalogCable should be made serializable and defaultCountryCode should be moved out to another class.

Since I don't have developer access, I can't do it (I would be glad if it could be arranged :wink: )

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

this sounds great!

Please try to contact the DEV team on IRC. It could be arranged, that you get access. (Frodo, Messi, DMAN).

And yes, this also did affect my two PVR cards (150 + 350). The second one always had cable=false on recording.

Flip.

 

[Mr Hipp]

Thanks, I will try to contact one of them.

Mr Hipp

 

[eloo]

Perfect!

Mr. Hipp, that really sounds great! Good luck working on it...

 

[scoop]

Hi,

A fix for this has been added to SVN. I've chosen to allow for serialization of _isAnalogCable and _defaultCountryCode instead. Please try next public SVN snapshot to see if this fixes it. You will need to re-add your tv card via setup. Also, make sure you set the Input Source to "Cable".

Let us know if things work out for you this way. Thx to Mr Hipp for pointing out the source of this bug.

Kind regards,
Michel

 

[ASiDiE]

I just tested this by recorded 6 30 min shows... back to back. This will force it to use both tuners. Every single show recorded and everyone was cable:true. This seems to be working great for me. Thanks for your hard work Mr Hipp.