can not play hdtv

Hello everybody,

I am experiencing a strange problem. Everything was working fine
until a recent system upgrade (as usual).

Now, when I watch live TV, xine does not switch to hdtv channels.
I mean that channels which are broadcast in digital form, but in low resolution are received, while channels which are broadcast in high definition are not. When I try to tune on one of the HD channels, xine,
acquires the channel and then drops it.. 

Here is the output of verbose=1

input_dvb: Tuner status:   FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITER
BI FE_HAS_SYNC
input_dvb: Bit error rate: 7764
input_dvb: Signal strength: 180
input_dvb: Signal/Noise Ratio: 180
input_dvb: Lock achieved at 617028615 Hz
input_dvb: Adding VIDEO     : PID 0x0031
  pid type 0x81,  has audio 0
input_dvb: Adding AUDIO     : PID 0x0034
  pid type 0x81,  has audio 1
(Timeout in EPG loop!! Quitting
gui_xine_open_and_play():
        mrl: 'dvb://WABC+0',
        sub 'NONE',
        start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0.
input_dvb: continuing in get_instance
xine: found input plugin  : DVB (Digital TV) input plugin
input_dvb: DVB GUI enabled
input_dvb: searching for channel WABC+0
input_dvb: Tuner status:   FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITER
BI FE_HAS_SYNC
input_dvb: Bit error rate: 12949
input_dvb: Signal strength: 210
input_dvb: Signal/Noise Ratio: 210
input_dvb: Lock achieved at 659000000 Hz
input_dvb: Adding VIDEO     : PID 0x0041
  pid type 0x81,  has audio 0
input_dvb: Adding AUDIO     : PID 0x0044
osd: error loading font cetus with ft2
osd: error loading font cetus with ft2
osd: error loading font cetus with ft2
osd: error loading font sans with ft2
video_out_xv: VO_PROP_ZOOM_X = 100
video_out_xv: VO_PROP_ZOOM_Y = 100


If I do verbose=2

i get this (relevant section when I try to switch the channel to HD)


input_dvb: media.dvb.tuning_timeout is 0
input_dvb: tuner_tune_it - waiting for lock...
input_dvb: status: 1f
input_dvb: Tuner status:   FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
input_dvb: Bit error rate: 6558
input_dvb: Signal strength: 225
input_dvb: Signal/Noise Ratio: 225
input_dvb: Lock achieved at 653000000 Hz
input_dvb: sending event
ui title event sent
input_dvb: Setting up Internal PAT filter
input_dvb: Setting up Internal PMT filter for pid 30
input_dvb: Adding VIDEO     : PID 0x0031
  pid type 0x81,  has audio 0
input_dvb: Adding AUDIO     : PID 0x0034
input_dvb: Setup of PID filters complete
(Timeout in EPG loop!! Quitting
got event 80000000
got event 00000003
demux_ts: read 0 packets
gui_xine_open_and_play():
        mrl: 'dvb://WABC+0',
        sub 'NONE',
        start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0.
input_cache: read calls: 210, main input read calls: 210
input_cache: seek_calls: 1, main input seek calls: 1

net_buf_ctrl: nbc_close

net_buf_ctrl: nbc_close: done
input_dvb: continuing in get_instance
xine: found input plugin  : DVB (Digital TV) input plugin
input_dvb: DVB GUI enabled
input_dvb: Frontend is <Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend> US Card
input_dvb: Card has no hardware decoder

again, it tuned to channel and then dropped it and reinitialized 
from the beginning.

Does some one know what the problem might be?

the list of packages is

 libxine1         1.1.14-3 
 libxine1-bin     1.1.14-3
 libxine1-console 1.1.14-3 
 libxine1-ffmpeg  1.1.14-3 
 libxine1-misc-plugins     1.1.14-3 
 libxine1-plugins    1.1.14-3 
 libxine1-x       1.1.14-3
  xine-ui      0.99.5+cvs20070914-2  

I am running debian unstable. Maybe some other packages are missing (where
removed during the upgrade?)

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot

ZF


      

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