[linux-dvb] Re: strange things happening...

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

Guido Fiala wrote:
> 
> Just tried to record IFA-TV with vdr-0.91,dvb-Aug.5.
> 
> While _watching_ IFA TV is just fine, recording (via instant record or manual
> timer), leads to vdr crash after a few seconds, then it restarts via the
> runvdr-script and it happens again...
> 
> ...
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: loading /data1/videos/timers.conf
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: loading /data1/videos/commands.conf
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe0
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4570]: EIT processing thread started (pid=4570)
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: found 1 video device
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: setting primary DVB to 1
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: switching to channel 2
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,3164): Invalid argument
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox last message repeated 5 times
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> Sep  1 18:19:57 wonderbox vdr[4568]: setting watchdog timer to 10 seconds
> Sep  1 18:20:03 wonderbox vdr[4568]: timer 6 start
> Sep  1 18:20:03 wonderbox vdr[4568]: switching to channel 37
> Sep  1 18:20:03 wonderbox vdr[4568]: waiting for EPG info...
> Sep  1 18:20:13 wonderbox vdr[4568]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
> ...

Try a longer watchdog timeout. VDR waits 10 seconds for the arrival of EPG
information - and meanwhile your watchdog timer has timed out.
The waiting for EPG data will be needed when VDR can record into a hierarchical
structure, using the "Subtitle" of the EPG event information as the actual
file name.

> @Klaus: one has no chance to stop the timer via menu then - you need to
> manually edit timers.conf to make it usable again!

Even if there was a menu item for this, with a 10 second watchdog timeout
you would have no chance to cut in there.

Klaus
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