[linux-dvb] Re: Vdr "video data stream broken"

[Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>]

Christian Schuld wrote:

> Normally "ERROR: video data stream broken" indicates, that VDR doesn't get any 
> data out of the DVB-card. The reason might be a tuning failiure or this 
> mysterios bug, which happens only with VDR in a multi card setups. I suppose 
> none of the driver developers actually use such a setup with VDR regulary, 
> because then it would have gotten more attention - simply because it is 
> really annoying ;-)
>  
One more datapoint for you, in my setup I have VDR running with 4 DVB-T 
PCI cards and it works fine.

I regularly have timers recording programmes on 2 or 3 cards 
simultaneously and have never seen the error you describe.

Perhaps the errors above only occur with one or more full featured cards?

   Jon