[vdr] Re: Stream broken: new vdr-file instead of emergency exit?

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

Matt Tovey wrote:
> 
> > Jan Grell wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it sometimes happens, that vdr reports a broken video stream and
> > > performs an emergency exit.
> > > Just today it happened four times in a sequence. I even didn't have a
> > > chance to cancel the timer, because of the emergency exits.
> > > Also, the systems sometimes locks up, if the driver tries to reload the
> > > fourth time.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible, to create a new recording file when the stream
> > > comes again instead of exiting?
> > > This would reduce the gaps in recordings...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jan
> 
> I have a similar problem - I looked in the /var/log/messages file and
> found that my recordings were breaking off (exactly) every 5 minutes.
> 
> I'm running RH7.3, and have since editted my /etc/crontab which included
> a task to run every 5 minutes (which gathers network statistics - not
> interesting to me!).
> 
> This seems to have solved the problems (although I'm surprised that this
> task should have disturbed my recordings).

If there were log messages like "video data stream broken", this might
indicate that your 5 minute interval tasks have caused too big a load
to your system, so VDR couldn't handle the data stream in time any more.

Klaus
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