[vdr] Suffering from continuous vdr restarts in various situations

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> we're suffering from continuous vdr restarts every few minutes during 
> recording of certain programs, while this is spat into syslog:

[..]

> Apr 16 20:56:33 ziggy vdr: [9944] PES packet shortened to 3347 bytes (expected: 3470 bytes)
> Apr 16 20:56:34 ziggy vdr: [9944] PES packet shortened to 3286 bytes (expected: 3470 bytes)
> Apr 16 20:56:35 ziggy vdr: [9944] PES packet shortened to 3372 bytes (expected: 3470 bytes)
> Apr 16 20:56:35 ziggy vdr: [9944] PES packet shortened to 3394 bytes (expected: 3470 bytes)

Looks like TS packets get lost.

[..]

> Sys info: openSUSE 10.2, pretty actual vdr drivers from hg server,
> vdr 1.46, 2 Hauppauge FF 2.1 dvb-s cards.

Most likely, the DVB drivers are to blame. Do you see any relationship
between updating the drivers and the occurrence of these messages in the
logfiles?

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
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