[vdr] Re: vdr[3330]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!

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

Ansgar Jonietz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 2.1 playing alone gives no error
> > 2.1 recording alone gives no error
> > recording from the nova gives MPEG1 error.
> >
> > This seems to be a problem with the/a/my DVB-s nova
> > or a second card, if it is a nova.
> > But I always said that i have dropouts...:-)
> > (Hm...there is no room in the MS6215 case for a another full size.)
> > Any way how to get more infos if this special card is broken
> > or if there is a problem with nova tho.
> 
> I think it's not only a NOVA-related problem:
> As i posted some time ago I have the same problem -- but with two full
> Hauppauge 2.1 cards.
> I didn't solve the problem yet, i will try using VDR0.95 with a current
> driver instead of VDR0.85.
> 
> The errors occurs only on recordings, not with live watching.
> Sometimes there are also messages "unknown picture type":
> 
> Aug 22 11:51:57 ophelia vdr[32132]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 22 11:51:57 ophelia vdr[32132]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
> Aug 22 11:51:57 ophelia vdr[32132]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> Aug 22 11:55:51 ophelia vdr[32132]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
> 
> Ansgar.

Just for the record: I have three Siemens DVB-S cards and do a lot of
recordings on various channels, but don't get any of these error messages.
I'm using the latest (well, almost, haven't installed last night's changes yet)
CVS driver with VDR 0.95.

Klaus
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