Skystar 2 BDA drivers

[siliconaudio]

Hi All,

I have a couple of late revision (2.8B) Technisat Skystar 2 cards with BDA driver version 4.6.0 (latest). I am seeing the same problem as others have before me in NPVR. Here's what happens:

• Boot the PC - the first time I tune to a DVB-S channel for live TV, playback is fine.
  
• Stop live TV and then select a channel to watch - picture freezes, or displays a mostly green screen.
  

Interestingly - If I don't actually stop live TV and change channels, everything is fine. Also, sometimes if I restart the recording service, I can get live TV working again.

Just wondering if there is anything in my logs that might give a clue as to what's going on? These logs are created fresh from the first successful playback of live TV and then the second attempt which fails.

[pds]

This seems like the same problem I was experiencing a while back, as detailed in this thread.

A working solution provided by sub was to add a new option to the software as detailed here:

That said, with the attached patch, you should be able to add <TuneTwiceOnDigitalChannels>true</TuneTwiceOnDigitalChannels> to the <Recording> section of config.xml, and it'll tune twice every time it needs to submit a tuning request. See if it helps.

I have noticed that <TuneTwiceOnDigitalChannels> option is not actually in the config file after an install or upgrade and needs to added manually.

[siliconaudio]

Thanks pds. To be honest, the Technisat BDA drivers are atrocious and have caused a number of blue screens on my PC. I have removed the cards from my machine for the moment. I might put them back in if Technisat ever update their BDA drivers.