[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.15

[Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:29, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> VDR developer version 1.3.15 is now available at
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.15.tar.bz2
> 
> *** NOTE THAT THE WARNINGS REGARDING THE USE OF VPS CONTROLLED
> *** TIMERS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE NOTES STILL APPLY!
> 
> The changes since version 1.3.14:
> 
> - Fixed some typos in the Makefile's 'font' target (thanks to Uwe Hanke).
> - Added more checks and polling when getting frontend events (based on a patch
>   from Werner Fink).
> - No longer explicitly waiting for a tuner lock when switching channels
>   (apparently setting "live" PIDs before the tuner is locked doesn't hurt).
>   Moved the wait into cDevice::AttachReceiver() instead.

Hmmmmm...I'm still getting a loss of signal or useful data after a
recording starts with this version.

Well, what I have just seen is this:

12:28 Timer becomes active, channel switches, recording starts
12:36 ERROR: no useful data seen within 10486640 byte of video stream
12:36 Emergency exit; vdr restarts
12:38 Another 'no useful data error' and another emergency exit;
12:38 I kill vdr as it is restarting and switch to version 1.3.12
13:05 Recording finishes without further problems

I end up with the files:

-rw-r--r--  1 vdr users  9802479 Nov  2 12:36 001.vdr
-rw-r--r--  1 vdr users  2713874 Nov  2 12:38 002.vdr
-rw-r--r--  1 vdr users 30826740 Nov  2 13:05 003.vdr
-rw-r--r--  1 vdr users   153712 Nov  2 13:05 index.vdr
-rw-r--r--  1 vdr users      192 Nov  2 12:39 summary.vdr

So it must be getting some useful data in the initial stages, i.e.
before the error message.

I've seen similar behaviour with various different ages of DVB driver so
I don't think it's a problem with them.

Does vdr keep on checking the lock during recording? Has this changed
between versions? I see that some of the lock checks have moved in this
version to allow for a moveable dish.

Cheers,

Laz