[vdr] Re: 1.0.4 Error: frame larger than buffer ???

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

Uwe Weissbach wrote:
> 
> scanning my message log I found
> Jun 14 22:38:55 mmbox vdr[1289]: playing '/video/Daylight/2002-06-
> 14.20.13.50.98.rec/002.vdr'
> Jun 14 22:38:56 mmbox vdr[1289]: ERROR: frame larger than buffer (369763 >
> 196608)
> 
> what does that mean and is this critically?

VDR allocates a buffer of 192KB for a single frame, which should
be sufficient in any case. Apparently for some reason your recording
contained a frame that was larger than that, maybe because the frame
borders were not detected when recording. The frame will simply be dropped
when replaying.

> later in this log I have some messages like:
> 
> Jun 14 22:39:22 mmbox vdr[1276]: switching to channel 1
> Jun 14 22:39:22 mmbox vdr[1337]: input thread ended (pid=1337)
> Jun 14 22:39:22 mmbox vdr[1336]: output thread ended (pid=1336)
> Jun 14 22:39:22 mmbox vdr[1276]: buffer stats: 233804 (22%) used
> 
> Jun 14 22:46:48 mmbox vdr[1276]: switching to channel 167
> Jun 14 22:46:48 mmbox vdr[1340]: output thread ended (pid=1340)
> Jun 14 22:46:48 mmbox vdr[1341]: input thread ended (pid=1341)
> Jun 14 22:46:48 mmbox vdr[1276]: buffer stats: 279167 (26%) used
> 
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1276]: switching to channel 19
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1416]: output thread ended (pid=1416)
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1417]: input thread ended (pid=1417)
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1276]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1418]: output thread started (pid=1418)
> Jun 14 23:22:46 mmbox vdr[1419]: input thread started (pid=1419)

These are normal and indicate that you have been watching channels
in "Transfer Mode".

> and finally a buffer message from the kernel but I suppose
> it has nothing to do with the vdr-buffer:
> 
> Jun 14 23:25:43 mmbox kernel: buffer empty

AFAIK this comes from the DVB driver and I guess it doesn't indicate
an actual problem - unless you observe any distortions when replaying.

Klaus
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