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

[bob <bobself@charter.net>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> 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.
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> Klaus
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No plugins. But I guess that this 1.3.11 is patched for North American 
compatibility from what I've read. That's the one I've been looking at. 
I'm not sure how it differs from 1.3.15. I guess that I'll try 1.3.15 
and see what it does. Is it compatible with North American DVB satellites?

bob