[vdr] Re: vdr crashes "buffer 100" or "Data stream broken"

[Richard Scobie <r.scobie@clear.net.nz>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Andreas Portz wrote:
> 
>>/me wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Pentium 233MMX, 224 MB, 120 GB
>>>2x Siemens DVB-S 1.3
>>>vdr: 1.0.4 no patches etc.
>>>DVB: 0.9.4
>>>Suse 8.0
>>>
>>>Recording one program works fine. Event cutting or a little bit time
>>>shift. As far as I start 2 concurrent recordings, vdr crashes with the
>>>well known "buffer 76% .. buffer 77% .. buffer 100%". Somewhere I got
>>>the tip to increase VIDEOBUFFSIZE in dvbapi.c from 1 to 10 MB. That
>>>keeps the vdr alive for about 45 sec. With 25 MB, it runs some minutes
>>>and dies in most cases without any warning with a "video data stream
>>>broken". Sometimes it counts it's buffer up to 80 or 82% an keeps
>>>working a few minutes longer. With 40(!!!!!!!!!) MB buffer, it seems to
>>>run stable if I don't do anything else. Even the cronjob for the
>>>master-timer scan or kvdr crashes the vdr after some seconds or minutes
>>>with the " ... broken".
>>>
>>Now I tried the same without X and KDE in runlevel 3 text mode only and without the
>>DSL-Gateway.
>>I have 40MB buffer an two recordings running:
>>In the time frame 2-10 min after starting vdr I get something similar to:
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>>ERROR: video data stream broken
>>
> 
> Maybe your box is too slow for two concurrent recordings?
> What does 'top' say? Are there any other tasks running with high CPU
> usage?
> 
> Klaus
> 

I may be way out of line, but what chipset is on the motherboard? If it 
is an Intel TX, it will not cache more than 64MB of RAM. Running more 
will definitely slow things down.

Regards,

Richard



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