[vdr] Re: VDR prefers my CI DVB device for recordings and blocks it unnecessarily

[Udo Richter]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Udo Richter wrote:
>> Lots of transfer buffer overflows and sluggish OSD, because 
>> VDR used the primary FF card for recording, while the secondary budget 
>> card is idle. System is back to normal if I switch to another channel.
> 
> Just tested it by recording ARD from the primary device and
> watching it live at the same time. No problems whatsoever.

Added tons of debug code and found the important difference.

This is watching ARD, then starting a timer on ARD:

20:37:17 dev=0 crd=0: chan=1 freq=11836 (Hi) pol=h
GetDevice ch=1 dev=0 ndr=0 Receiving(true)=1 Receiving(false)=0
r[0] pri=-1 numPids=1 pid0=104 pid1=0 pid2=0
           Impact=0001880B
GetDevice ch=1 dev=1 ndr=0 Receiving(true)=0 Receiving(false)=0
           Impact=00118804
20:37:29 dev=0 crd=0: chan=1 freq=11836 (Hi) pol=h

(The line with the clock is from cStatus::ChannelSwitch, the GetDevice 
is from the loop in cDevice::GetDevice, r[..] is a receiver on this 
device, Impact the final result of that device)

The important thing to see is that a priority -1 receiver is attached to 
the primary device, PID 104 - thats teletext on ARD. As consequence, 
Receiving(true) is true and VDR believes there's already a recording 
running on the primary device anyway, and starts the recording on the 
primary device.

The counter-proof without osdteletext running:

20:35:47 dev=0 crd=0: chan=1 freq=11836 (Hi) pol=h
GetDevice ch=1 dev=0 ndr=0 Receiving(true)=0 Receiving(false)=0
           Impact=0011880B
GetDevice ch=1 dev=1 ndr=0 Receiving(true)=0 Receiving(false)=0
           Impact=00118804
20:35:55 dev=1 crd=1: chan=1 freq=11836 (Hi) pol=h

... and VDR uses the budget card for recording.

Well, thats the reason, but I'm far from suggesting any fix for it.

Cheers,

Udo