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From: Claudio Luck <cluck@ethz.ch>
To: Andrea <mariofutire@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] How to use a DVB FRONTEND in read only?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:13:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4853B5CD.3050906@ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2unka$ivi$1@ger.gmane.org>

Andrea wrote:
> I would like to open the dvb in readonly and take whatever frequency is currently tuned:
> 
> 1) I open the frontend in read only
> 2) query the current frequency to check is there is a lock
> 3) I open the demux, set some filters and read from the demux.
> 
> There is a *big* issue here:
> 
> The card streams packets *only* and *as long* as the frontend is opened in read/write (by some other 
> application) and tuned.
> If my application opens the frontend in readonly and there is no other application running, the 
> ioctl FE_GET_INFO still returns FE_HAS_LOCK but no data goes through the demux.
> As soon as the frontend is tuned, the data arrives.
> 
> Am I correct? How can I detect if the dvb is running or not?


Check for open filehandles on demux device:

root@iptv:~# ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep demux
lrwx------ 1 vlc  vlc  64 2008-06-14 14:02 /proc/19876/fd/6 ->
/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
lrwx------ 1 vlc  vlc  64 2008-06-14 14:02 /proc/19892/fd/6 ->
/dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-14 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-13 21:07 [linux-dvb] How to use a DVB FRONTEND in read only? Andrea
2008-06-14 12:13 ` Claudio Luck [this message]
2008-06-14 12:31   ` Andrea
2008-06-14 15:59     ` Claudio Luck

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