[linux-dvb] Re: can't record MPEG1! (was: Timer starts late...)

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

Ansgar Jonietz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > Aug 22 05:06:03 vdr vdr[5912]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> > >
> > > What does this say?
> >
> > Might have been an error in the incoming data that fooled VDR into believing
> > that it was looking at MPEG1 data. Shouldn't be a problem if it doesn't happen too
> > often.
> 
> But here it does happen often!
> Here's an extract of my log-file; a typicall recording: first driver
> reload after "ERROR: video data stream broken" and then during the
> recording "ERROR: can't record MPEG1!" -- every of this lines causes
> errors in video and audio when replaying the recording.
> 
> Aug 23 11:33:00 ophelia vdr[688]: timer 1 start
> Aug 23 11:33:00 ophelia vdr[688]: switching to channel 7
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[688]: record
> /video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[688]: creating directory
> /video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[688]: recording to
> '/video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec/001.vdr'
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[688]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,2089): Device or
> resource busy
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[3120]: output thread started (pid=3120)
> Aug 23 11:33:01 ophelia vdr[3121]: input thread started (pid=3121)
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[3121]: ERROR: video data stream broken
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[3121]: initiating emergency exit
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[688]: emergency exit requested - shutting
> down
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[688]: saved setup to /video/setup.conf
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[690]: EIT processing thread ended (pid=690)
> - master
> Aug 23 11:33:12 ophelia vdr[691]: EIT processing thread ended (pid=691)
> Aug 23 11:33:15 ophelia vdr[688]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
> Aug 23 11:33:15 ophelia vdr[688]: max. latency time 2 seconds
> Aug 23 11:33:15 ophelia vdr[688]: exiting
> Aug 23 11:33:15 ophelia vdr[688]: emergency exit!
>                 <DVB reload>
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: VDR version 0.84 started
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: loading /video/setup.conf
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: loading /video/channels.conf
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: loading /video/timers.conf
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: loading /video/commands.conf
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe0
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3269]: EIT processing thread started
> (pid=3269) - master
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe1
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3270]: EIT processing thread started
> (pid=3270)
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe2
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: probing /dev/ost/qamfe2
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: found 2 video devices
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: setting primary DVB to 1
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: switching to channel 1
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3271]: LIRC remote control thread started
> (pid=3271)
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> Aug 23 11:33:35 ophelia vdr[3267]: setting watchdog timer to 60 seconds
> Aug 23 11:33:41 ophelia vdr[3267]: timer 1 start
> Aug 23 11:33:41 ophelia vdr[3267]: switching to channel 7
> Aug 23 11:33:42 ophelia vdr[3267]: record
> /video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec
> Aug 23 11:33:42 ophelia vdr[3267]: recording to
> '/video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec/002.vdr'
> Aug 23 11:33:42 ophelia vdr[3272]: output thread started (pid=3272)
> Aug 23 11:33:42 ophelia vdr[3273]: input thread started (pid=3273)
> Aug 23 11:33:43 ophelia vdr[3267]: max. latency time 1 seconds
> Aug 23 11:36:26 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:36:53 ophelia last message repeated 3 times
> Aug 23 11:37:16 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:42:18 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:42:37 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:46:08 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:54:04 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:54:08 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 11:55:29 ophelia vdr[3272]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 23 12:05:55 ophelia vdr[3272]: recording to
> '/video/Bill_Cosby_Show/2001-08-23.11:33.50.99.rec/003.vdr'
> Aug 23 12:15:01 ophelia vdr[3272]: output thread ended (pid=3272)
> Aug 23 12:15:01 ophelia vdr[3273]: input thread ended (pid=3273)
> Aug 23 12:15:01 ophelia vdr[3267]: buffer stats: 50948 (4%) used
> Aug 23 12:15:01 ophelia vdr[3267]: timer 1 stop
> Aug 23 12:15:01 ophelia vdr[3267]: deleting timer 1
> 
> As you can see in the logs I still use VDR 0.84 .
> Is this a know (perhaps even solved?) problem?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Ansgar.

The only reason I could think of would be a weak antenna signal.
I never have this error here.

Klaus
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