[vdr] Re: RE : Re: For VDR-1.2.0: VDR should disable broken cards

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

Philippe wrote:
> 
> >Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > > the problem is, i was looking a recording that time,  had no need
> for >an
> >> > > antenna signal;-)
> >> > > but couldnt view  my recordings for that reason.
> >> > >
> >> > > i propose to add a setup option to stop vdr from restarting in
> the
> >> described
> >> > > case.
> >> > >
> >> > > this would also be an option for the broken card problem.
> >> >
> >> > Are you sure that there wasn't a recording going on during that
> time?
> >>
> >> As a matter of fact VDR already does this back as far as 1.1.17 (and
> >> maybe earlier). On a multiple card setup, if one card doesn't have
> >> an antenna connected and only the EPG scan kicks in, VDR will
> >> restart continuously.
> >
> >If a card doesn't have an antenna connected to it, what sense does
> >it make to have VDR use it?
> 
> Well I had the same problem :
> My VDR Box is able to do DivX, replay of recordings and so on.
> 
> I took my box with me and some DivX.
> As there were no antenna, I couldn't use my VDRBox to view some
> recordings or DivX (the replay was really choppy).
> 
> It could be interesting to stop the DVB card search to give all the CPU
> power to DivX replay or recordings replay.

What do you mean by "DVB card search"?

If your system shows heavy CPU load without an antenna, could you
please check which thread actually causes the load?

Klaus
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