[Bug 654483] New: Multiple attempts to tune a DVB frontend

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654483
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | git

           Summary: Multiple attempts to tune a DVB frontend
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-bad
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: h at realh.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


If dvbsrc fails to tune a DVB frontend it retries up to a total of five
attempts. I don't think this is useful because most failures won't be cleared
by trying again. If it is useful in some circumstances, application writers can
easily make multiple attempts where necessary instead of having it hard wired
in to the library. The biggest disadvantage of these forced retries is in DVB-T
scanning where multiple frequencies are tried until a working one is found.
Trying all the bad frequencies up to five times makes the process painfully
slow.

Here's a patch to remove the extra retries. It should be applied after my s2api
patch from Bug 654479.

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