[linux-dvb] Re: Channel not sync'ed problem with second card

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

Marc Luuk wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >  Are you sure VDR is trying to do the recording on the first card?
> No! It's recording in the second card.
> > Please send me an excerpt from your /var/log/messages file.
> Here is an output of the /var/log/messages file while an attempt of
> recording something on RTL2 and watching something on SAT1.
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> Sep  2 07:50:26 luuk4 vdr[1059]: timer 3 start
> Sep  2 07:50:26 luuk4 vdr[1059]: switching to channel 4
> Sep  2 07:50:26 luuk4 vdr[1059]: waiting for EPG info...
> Sep  2 07:50:37 luuk4 vdr[1059]: no EPG info available
> Sep  2 07:50:37 luuk4 vdr[1059]: record
> /video/@RTL2/2001-09-02.07:50.50.50.rec
> Sep  2 07:50:37 luuk4 vdr[1059]: creating directory /video/@RTL2
> Sep  2 07:50:37 luuk4 vdr[1059]: creating directory
> /video/@RTL2/2001-09-02.07:50.50.50.rec
> Sep  2 07:50:37 luuk4 vdr[1059]: recording to
> '/video/@RTL2/2001-09-02.07:50.50.50.rec/001.vdr'
> Sep  2 07:50:38 luuk4 vdr[1384]: output thread started (pid=1384)
> Sep  2 07:50:38 luuk4 vdr[1385]: input thread started (pid=1385)
> Sep  2 07:50:38 luuk4 vdr[1059]: max. latency time 12 seconds
> Sep  2 07:51:06 luuk4 vdr[1059]: switching to channel 2
> Sep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1385]: ERROR: video data stream broken
> Sep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1385]: initiating emergency exit
> Sep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1059]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
> Sep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1059]: saved setup to /video/setup.conf
> Sep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1061]: EIT processing thread ended (pid=1061) -
> masterSep  2 07:51:11 luuk4 vdr[1062]: EIT processing thread ended
> (pid=1062)
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1385]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,548): Bad file descriptor
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1385]: input thread ended (pid=1385)
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1059]: buffer stats: 5640 (0%) used
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1059]: max. latency time 12 seconds
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1059]: exiting
> Sep  2 07:51:14 luuk4 vdr[1059]: emergency exit!
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > If the channel can't be sync'd on the second card, VDR will do an emergency
> > exit in order to try to reload the driver.
> >
> > Are you running VDR via the 'runvdr' script?
> Yes. With watchdog timeout of "60".

So you can watch TV with the first card, but recording (with the second card)
doesn't work.

Can you please connect a TV to the second card to see whether there is any
picture there? Maybe there is a problem with the antenna signal on that
second card.

Klaus
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