Mythbackend dies in HandleRemoteEncoder

[jose.bandos@…]

This happens to me with all .20 svn versions at least up to rev. 12677. When a tuner isn't bound to a input, the backend dies when queried for tuner status (in mythwelcome or inside the information center). The following is the relevant log output:

2007-01-30 11:06:04.428 MainServer?: HandleRemoteEncoder?(cmd GET_STATE) Unknown encoder: 2, exiting

This has been already discussed in ​http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/235332, and the patch in that thread fixed the problem for me. Can it be added to the main trunk? Thank you.

[jose.bandos@…]

allowmissingdecoders.patch

[cpinkham]

(In [12972]) Don't exit mythbackend just because someone gave us some invalid information. Instead use the philosophy of Garbate-In, Garbage-Out and let them die a slow painful death if they choose to. This could be on purpose or something as simple as a tuner without any valid inputs attached.

Closes #3022. For this specific case of the invalid tuner, the answer given (-1) is actually valid so this does fix #3022's GET_STATE issue, but now the backend will no longer die for other commands for an incorrectly setup tuner.

[stuartm]

[12972] needs to be backported to -fixes

[stuartm]

(In [14066]) Backports [12972] to -fixes. Don't exit the backend if the user has misconfigured their capture cards. Nothing good can come from such misconfiguration but exiting the backend is potentially worse due to missed recordings etc.

Fixes #3022