Re: Help: VDR recording feature failed due to buffer overflow

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Mace Gael wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> First of all, because I'm new in your group, let me present my interest for
> your job:
> 
>         Involve in the corporate research part of Thomson Multimedia, I'm
> studying the possibilities of Linux as OS for consumer electronic products
> like setop box, digital TV, etc.
> 
> After to have installed all the components:
>         hardware (Siemens' board Rev 1.3)
>         software (DVB/driver version 0.7.1, VDR version 0.63)
> on my PC
>         Processor Intel PIII 450MHz
>         128 MBytes RAM
>         HDD IDE 6GBytes
>         Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root@wnt-umbriel.rennes.thmulti.com) (gcc
> version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 ven aoû 18
> 16:20:02 CEST 2000
> 
> I succeeded also in setting up in order to receive and display the services
> of the ZDF Vision transponder. Everything works except the recording feature
> which failed due to a buffer overflow:
> 
>         Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: record
> /video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec
>         Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: creating directory
> /video/@3sat
>         Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: creating directory
> /video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec
>         Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[911]: start recording process
> (pid=911)
>         Sep 19 10:40:08 wnt-umbriel vdr[911]: recording to
> '/video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec/001.vdr'
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 10 times
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 6 times
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow
> 
> Could someone tell me what's happened and what I shall do in order to avoid
> this problem?

With driver version 0.7x you need to add 'outstream=0' to the
"insmod dvb.o" commands in the Makefile. VDR still needs AV_PES
data at this time.

Greetings
Klaus
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