[vdr] Re: Experiences with yaepg plugin with vdr 1.3.15

[Christian Gmeiner <christian@visual-page.de>]

Michal Dobrzynski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I tried the yaepg plugin with the 2.6.10-rc1 kernel and Debian 
> packages from Darren Salt (I simply added the yaepg patch to the patch 
> list).
>
> I also copied the linux/dvb includes from my kernel to the system 
> includes (normally provided by the linux-kernel-headers package). This 
> all seemed to work fine when compiling and indeed it initially appeared 
> to work well when I tried the plugin. A quartersize window with the 
> livetv in it would appear and I could use the arrow keys to move through 
> the programs/channels.
>
> Unfortunately after a few key-presses the system would stop responding 
> and eventually vdr would restart thanks to the watchdog timer. After the 
> restart there were usually serious problems with the OSD and in one case 
> I was not able to tune to any channel. The only solution in each case 
> seemed to be to unload and reload the dvb-ttpci module.
>
> Has anyone had any experiences with yaepg which may help me track down 
> what the problem is? It looks like the perfect epg to me (some tweaking 
> like excluding channels would still be required).
The plugin maintainer is working on a 0.0.2 version of the plugin atm.

Greets,

--
Christian Gmeiner
Maintainer of the DXR3-Plugin for VDR: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3plugin/
Maintainer of VDR-Ebuilds at Gentoo.de