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

[Marc Luuk <m.luuk@mx.uni-saarland.de>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 10:55:33 +0200
> From: Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Channel not sync'ed problem with second card
> 
> 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.
Yes! That's correct.
> 
> 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.
I've tested this too this morning. The signal on both cables is ok.

BUT now I think I've found the problem. My two DVD-S cards (One Hauppauge
DVD-S Rev. 2.1 and one Technisat Skystar 1 Rev. 1.5) were installed on PCI
Slot 1 and 2 of my Mainboard. And the other PCI Slots were occupied by
VGA, SCSI and Ethernet. Now I've changed the positions of the cards and
it's working for me.
Maybe it was an IRQ-related problem.

Klaus: Thank you for your kind help on my problem. You and the
contributors have done a really good job in developing this nice piece of
software.

Best wishes

	Marc



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