[Bug 1241842] Re: scanning with dvb s/s2 card broken

[Johannes Ranke]

I tried to build from the source in your ppa. However I needed to ask
for Qt4 explicitly in order to succeed, see attached patch.

Switching channels works charmingly in all directions with this version!

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:46:38PM -0000, msaxl wrote:
> The patch was applied to the source package of ubuntu.
> 
> I have built a package with the patch applied in ppa:saxl/ppa (for
> ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10).
> 
> If applying the patch to the git version of kaffeine did not work for
> you, could you check if it works with the ppa version?
> 
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> Title:
>   scanning with dvb s/s2 card broken
> 
> Status in “kaffeine” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
>   Kaffeine uses DVBv3 api for DVB-S and DVBv5 api for DVB-S2
> 
>   There are some problems with this since the switch back to S from S2 does not always work correctly
>   (see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c)
> 
>   even though there is a specific fix for kaffeine, I have the problem
>   described with a HVR4000 card
> 
>   I think the best thing is switch to DVBv5 api calls at least for DVB-S
> 
>   I attached a patch which works for me, but of corse some regression
>   testing is needed
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Dr. Johannes Ranke                 jranke at uni-bremen.de


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