[vdr] Re: Outdated EPG-Box

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 13:48, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > 
> > On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:28, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > > > I can confirm this with a single-card system (vanilla 1.3.6, EPG scan
> > > > disabled). If you switch to a transponder which has not been accessed
> > > > for a few hours you get outdated current/next information...
> > >
> > > Do you see the correct information if you turn the channel display off
> > > and on while on that channel? I would assume this is the case, and VDR 1.3.7
> > > will dynamically update that information while the channel display is on.
> > 
> > Yes, the current/next info is correct after a few seconds on the
> > transponder. Could it be that vdr uses out-dated running-status
> > information when I switch to the transponder?
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what's happenig.
> In order to make sure the channel display displays the current event, even
> if that event's end time has already passed by, it uses the "running status"
> to identify the currently runnign event. In case you're switching to a channel
> that hasn't been received for a while (and thus the running status is outdated)
> VDR will show the wrong event. As I said, in VDR 1.3.7 the correct event will
> be shown automatically as soon as the new running status has been revceived,
> which is typically within one or two seconds.

Hmm, imho the (outdated) running status info should be ignored/removed
if no card is tuned to the transponder.

As a short-term solution I modified cDisplayChannel::DisplayInfo()
in menu.c to ignore running status:
'Schedule->GetPresentEvent(true)' -> 'Schedule->GetPresentEvent()'
Principle of less surprise. ;-)

Oliver


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