Hi All,
I’ve started trying to test a PCTV 292e USB Tuner on Plex Media Server 1.10.1.4602 running both on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and Fedora Core 27. In both instances I’m using a virtual machine running on top of ESXi 6.5 with the USB device passed through.
When scanning for channels via the Plex Web interface, the only channels I can pick up are non-HD channels. If i look into the Tuner log files I see this:
INFO - * v4l::DeviceGetList_impl. Successfully opened frontend /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
INFO - * CTVSChannelScanner::Tune. Wait for lock timeout
WARN - [E] dvb_channel_scanner_t::do_scan. Tune failed for 570000,H,9600
INFO - * channel_scanner_t::scan_channels. Scanned 7 transponder out of 7. Channels found 141
INFO - * CTVSStreamSource::Term. Waiting for streaming thread to stop
INFO - * Stop device request for tuner 0, frontend 0
570000 is an HD multiplex - and I see this again for 545833 which is the other HD multiplex.
If I run dvbv5-scan on the same machine with -T 5 to increase the timeout by a factor of 5 I can successfully list channels on the two missing HD multiplexes that Plex is unable to see channels on. It seems that it’s taking longer to successfully tune to these HD multiplexes than the regular non-HD ones.
Is there any way to increase the tuning timeout before Plex “gives up” when trying to tune to a channel?
Thanks,
Phil.
