[vdr] Re: vdr 1.1.15 didn't record

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

Joerg Riechardt wrote:
> 
> the following error messages I got while vdr tried to start recording,
> but didn't succeed;
> or is that a driver problem? driver is 1-11-02. what is the reason for
> this? how can I prevent
> that to happen again? other recordings worked ok, and up to now there
> were no other problems.
> Suse 8.0, Celeron 1333.
> Jörg
> 
> Nov  6 17:37:11 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Nov  6 17:39:51 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> Nov  6 17:40:00 vdr vdr[351]: receiver thread ended on device 1
> (pid=351)
> Nov  6 17:40:00 vdr vdr[302]: creating directory /vtx/7
> Nov  6 17:40:00 vdr vdr[730]: receiver thread started on device 1
> (pid=730)
> Nov  6 17:40:00 vdr vdr[302]: timer 1 start
> Nov  6 17:40:00 vdr vdr[302]: waiting for EPG info...
> Nov  6 17:40:03 vdr vdr[350]: buffer usage: 80% (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:40:03 vdr vdr[350]: buffer usage: 85% (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:40:04 vdr vdr[350]: buffer usage: 90% (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:40:04 vdr vdr[350]: buffer usage: 95% (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:40:04 vdr vdr[350]: buffer usage: 100% (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:40:04 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (61 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:40:04 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr last message repeated 15168 times
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[302]: no EPG info available
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[302]: record
> /video/Muwie/_/2002-11-06.17.40.50.99.rec
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[302]: creating directory /video/Muwie/_
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[302]: creating directory
> /video/Muwie/_/2002-11-06.17.40.50.99.rec
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr last message repeated 95 times
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[302]: recording to
> '/video/Muwie/_/2002-11-06.17.40.50.99.rec/001.vdr'
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr last message repeated 177 times
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[732]: recording thread started (pid=732)
> Nov  6 17:40:11 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:40:42 vdr last message repeated 71437 times
> Nov  6 17:41:43 vdr last message repeated 171246 times
> Nov  6 17:42:44 vdr last message repeated 158040 times
> Nov  6 17:43:45 vdr last message repeated 177407 times
> Nov  6 17:44:46 vdr last message repeated 170363 times
> Nov  6 17:45:47 vdr last message repeated 189894 times
> Nov  6 17:46:48 vdr last message repeated 175720 times
> Nov  6 17:47:16 vdr last message repeated 81045 times
> Nov  6 17:47:16 vdr vdr[732]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10486640
> byte of video stream
> Nov  6 17:47:16 vdr vdr[732]: initiating emergency exit
> Nov  6 17:47:16 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr last message repeated 1514 times
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[302]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[350]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr last message repeated 71 times
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[732]: recording thread ended (pid=732)
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[302]: buffer stats: 7520 (0%) used
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[302]: timer 1 stop
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[349]: transfer thread ended (pid=349)
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[350]: receiver thread ended on device 2
> (pid=350)
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[302]: buffer stats: 1048575 (100%) used
> Nov  6 17:47:17 vdr vdr[302]: saved setup to /video/setup.conf
> 
> Nov  6 17:51:12 vdr vdr[957]: switching to channel 32
> Nov  6 17:51:12 vdr vdr[962]: transfer thread started (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:12 vdr vdr[963]: receiver thread started on device 2
> (pid=963)
> Nov  6 17:51:12 vdr vdr[964]: receiver thread started on device 1
> (pid=964)
> Nov  6 17:51:18 vdr vdr[964]: receiver thread ended on device 1
> (pid=964)
> Nov  6 17:51:18 vdr vdr[965]: receiver thread started on device 1
> (pid=965)
> Nov  6 17:51:18 vdr vdr[957]: timer 1 start
> Nov  6 17:51:18 vdr vdr[957]: waiting for EPG info...
> Nov  6 17:51:29 vdr vdr[957]: no EPG info available
> Nov  6 17:51:29 vdr vdr[957]: record
> /video/Muwie/_/2002-11-06.17.40.50.99.rec
> Nov  6 17:51:30 vdr vdr[957]: recording to
> '/video/Muwie/_/2002-11-06.17.40.50.99.rec/002.vdr'
> Nov  6 17:51:30 vdr vdr[970]: recording thread started (pid=970)
> Nov  6 17:51:35 vdr vdr[963]: buffer usage: 80% (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:35 vdr vdr[963]: buffer usage: 85% (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:35 vdr vdr[963]: buffer usage: 90% (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:35 vdr vdr[963]: buffer usage: 95% (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:36 vdr vdr[963]: buffer usage: 100% (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:51:36 vdr vdr[963]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (89 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:51:36 vdr vdr[963]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> Nov  6 17:52:00 vdr last message repeated 48915 times
> Nov  6 17:52:00 vdr vdr[962]: transfer thread ended (pid=962)
> Nov  6 17:52:00 vdr vdr[963]: receiver thread ended on device 2
> (pid=963)
> Nov  6 17:52:00 vdr vdr[957]: buffer stats: 1048575 (100%) used

First of all please try it with the original VDR, without any patches
or plugins to see if it happens there, too.

Klaus
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