[vdr] Re: vdr perform an emergency exit when recording encrypted channels

[tho68@ssisrl.com]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> tho68@ssisrl.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I observed that vdr sistematically perform an emergency exit when the
> > following conditions are met :
> > 1) The vdr is starting up
> > 2) There is a timer active (and to be immediately started) on an encrypted
> > channel
> > 3) There is no subscription active for the channel to bve recorded
> >
> > this happen to on FTA channels that are occasionally scrambled, and on PPV
> > channels with events not bought.
> >
> > If this is not a bug, could be a better solution to suspend or postpone
> > the recording instead of exiting vdr ?
>
> And how do you think VDR should know whether this is not a driver failure?
>
> Why don't you just _not_ program timers for programmes that you can't
> receive, anyway?
>
> Ok, there's one thing that could be done: VDR could touch some log file
> whenever it does an emergency exit, and does the next emergency exit only
> after some time has passed since the last one (like, say, 10 minutes by
> default). Would that help?
>
> Klaus
>
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Ok the solution you proposed could help.


I tried to change the emergency exit with a break ( I suppose let the
recording thread clearly end ).
I observed that until the timer
expire vdr retry to start the recording, and the recording start regularly
when stream became again available ( i tried this inserting the smartcard
some minutes after the timer started ). I tried also to let a timer start
record some minutes, then take off the smartcard , then reinsert the
smartcard and the recording was complete with  the period the smart card
was off cutted.

My only question is, why emergency exit occur only during vdr startup
and not when the timer start with vdr already running ?



Thank's

Angelo



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