[vdr] Re: Timer Bug in vdr?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> Thorsten.Thomas.Heck@t-online.de(Thorsten Heck)  22.09.01 16:59
> 
> Once upon a time Thorsten Heck shaped the electrons to say...
> 
> >Hi!
> 
> >I just thought someone cracked my machine and was switching channels
> >for me, but it was vdr 0.95 :-)
> 
> Had a similar effect:
> On tuesday VDR tries to record events from monday, and
> find one second later, that those records need not yet to be done.
> 
> I have the feeling that the staring thread sees another systemtime
> that the rest of the world.

The timer considerations are all done in the main thread.
I don't know (yet) what causes this funny behaviour, but I have also
observed this once. When I wanted to recreate the conditions in order
to reproduce it, the error didn't occur any more...

Klaus

> 
> >Timer 3 in my timers.conf looks like this:
> >1:3:MDMDF--:1600:1701:50:50:Star Trek - Das nächste Jahrhundert:
> 
> >And this is what vdr did:
> 
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: timer 3 start
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: switching to channel 3
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux kernel: mon_complete(0): freq=1880000000, sr=27500000, realfreq=1880000000, step=1 , fdiff=0, fec=0
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: Title: 'Family Law' Subtitle: 'Fahrerflucht'
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: record /video0/Star_Trek_-_Das_nächste_Jahrhundert/Fahrerflucht/2001-09-22.16.00.50.50.rec
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: creating directory /video0/Star_Trek_-_Das_nächste_Jahrhundert/Fahrerflucht
> >Sep 22 16:37:29 linux vdr[21296]: creating directory /video0/Star_Trek_-_Das_nächste_Jahrhundert/Fahrerflucht/2001-09-22.16.00.50.50.rec
> >Sep 22 16:37:30 linux vdr[21296]: recording to '/video0/Star_Trek_-_Das_nächste_Jahrhundert/Fahrerflucht/2001-09-22.16.00.50.50.rec/001.vdr'
> >Sep 22 16:37:30 linux vdr[28095]: output thread started (pid=28095)
> >Sep 22 16:37:30 linux vdr[28096]: input thread started (pid=28096)
> >Sep 22 16:37:35 linux vdr[28095]: output thread ended (pid=28095)
> >Sep 22 16:37:35 linux vdr[28096]: input thread ended (pid=28096)
> >Sep 22 16:37:36 linux vdr[21296]: buffer stats: 37600 (3%) used
> >Sep 22 16:37:36 linux vdr[21296]: timer 3 stop
> >
> >Vdr didn't crash and restart or something, it was happily running for several
> >hours now...

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