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

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

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> ....
> > > 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.
> 
> I could reproduce that, too, witb IFA TV. Interesting.
> 
> So I guess setting the watchdog timer to 7, as I had suggested
> before, is not a wise choice.  ;-)
> 
> I apologize. My statement was premature.
> I wonder, though, why I did not have problems with other recordings?
> 
> Carsten.

I guess because the other channels broadcast EPG data.
In that case VDR doesn't need to wait when starting a recording.

Klaus
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