[linux-dvb] Re: cutting problems with VDR 0.80

[Thomas Heiligenmann <thomas@heiligenmann.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Juergen Scherer wrote:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Henning Holtschneider <hh@holtschneider.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I just tried to remove the commercials from an X-Files episode I recorded
> > > two weeks ago with a preX version of VDR. The cutting process seems to run
> > > fine, but the result only shows half of what I have cut before (the net
> > > length of the episode should be around 45 minutes but the resulting file
> > > is only about 24 minutes long). I examined the marks.vdr file and all
> > > cutting marks are there. I then tried to cut a recording I made with the
> > > current 0.80 release and it ends prematurely, too. The result can be
> > > reproduced if I remove the cut files and start the cutting process again.
> > > How can I determine what's going wrong? Regards, hh
> >
> > I justed wanted to confirm this behaviour of vdr-0.80 (I didn't test
> > preX). The resulting cut-file always seems to be only half the length it
> > should be. The graphical representation of the cut marks is looking
> > OK, jumping to marks is working properly, only the cutting itself
> > doesn't work as expected without an error message in the logfile.
> >
> > Maybe I should enable some debugging...
> >
> > Henning, did you get some response or are we the only ones with the
> > problem or is nobody cutting records ?
> 
> I have just now received this message from the list (maybe some problem
> with the list server?). I haven't had time to look into this problem yet,
> but I guess it must be somewhere in dvbapi.c, cCuttingBuffer::Action().
> 

Same problem here; the syslog reports the following:

Jun 11 23:07:31 client01 vdr[2276]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,1193): Bad address
Jun 11 23:07:31 client01 vdr[2276]: end video cutting thread

HTH
Thomas


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