[vdr] prevernting vdr restart on bad signal?

[Wolfgang Fritz]

Brougs78 schrieb:
> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
>> Ali H.M. Hoseini wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> I've noticed that when the signal quality goes low ( high BER or high
>>> UNC), and if a timer records that channel simultaneously, the vdr exits
>>> continuously, and  hence  produces  too  many  recording files.
>>>
>>> How should I prevent vdr from exit, in this situations?
>> Locate the line
>>
>>   cThread::EmergencyExit(true);
>>
>> in recorder.c and comment it out.
> Hi Klaus!
> 
> I think the dvb-drivers is quite stable now. At least on my VDR there 
> are almost no problems with the stability. So I think there are maybe 
> zwo big issues left (I dont' know for sure) which can be "solved" by a 
> restart of the drivers (and VDR):
> - the "good old" uknown picture type-error
> - the video data stream broken-error
> 
> Is it possible to distinguish between these errors and a reception-error 
> due to bad signal-quality (snow on the dish, very bad weather ...)?
> 
> If there is a way to distinguish between this errors would it be 
> possible to make the emergency exit only if it can fix the problem?
> On systems with more cards/dishes it could also help to check if there 
> is a ongoning recording wich has no problems (for example card 1 records 
> on one dish with good reception and card 2 tries to start a recording on 
> a dish with bad reception). Maybe if there are working ongoing 
> recordings the start of an additional recording which doesn't work 
> should not restart VDR as it interrupts the working recordings?
> 
> So maybe a preferd behaviour of VDR could be:
> upt or vdsb-error --> EmergencyExit if there is no working recording; do 
> nothing otherwise
> errors which can be lead back to reception-issues --> do nothing
> 
> What do you think?
> 

I would like to add another issue that is related to this: If you have a
VDR with more than one card, and you do not have connected a cable to
all cards, VDR should try to record on a different card if it can not
tune to the card it selected for recording first. I come into this
situation because I sometimes use my VDR at a location where only one
SAT cable is available.

Regards,

Wolfgang


> Bye,
> Andreas Brugger
> 
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