[vdr] Re: Why does vdr exit when I change channels?

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

bob wrote:
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> bob wrote:
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> > I finally got vdr running almost perfectly. I can select a couple of
> > free channels on satellite by scrolling through the menu's list of
> > channels. When I hit ok (enter) from the keyboard vdr changes to the
> > channel successfully but then exits saying "Killed" on the screen.
> >
> > Why does that happen shouldn't vdr keep running if you change channels?
> >
> > bob
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> I only have the KBD as the control device. I've traced the problem to
> the main loop of vdr.
> Interact->ProcessKey(key) returns osEnd which tells the program to shut
> down. Tracing all of this back to cMenuChannels::Switch(void) returns
> osEnd if cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->SwitchChannel(ch, true) succeeds in
> switching the channel. That doesn't make sense to me. Why should the
> program exit if you just change channels? Is that a bug?
> 
> bob

osEnd just tells it to close the current OSD display, not to exit.

Are you using any plugins or patches?
If so, please try again with plain vanilla VDR.

Klaus