[vdr] Re: AW: Re: epg2timer

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

Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
> 
> Hi List
> 
> Tanks for all your answers.
> 
>  I have chased a little bit through the code of the VDR. The SVDRP interface
> is really another Keyboard frontend. But here the keyboard is a socket. That
> means that all the processing of the content of the socket is done character
> by character through all the levels of the code. I have programmed such an
> Keystroke recording/playback facility some years ago for a very large
> application in the networkmanagment area for automatic testing and as you
> can imagine, it was also not the fastest one (it runs for days), but it was
> always better than to type in all the thousands of testcases.
> 
> So now I understand, that it is a question of how much information is sent
> by TVTV. I will not limit the amount of the description for a movie because
> I like to have it. Maybe some day Klaus has a slot free on his "weird things
> to do list" to improve this interface a little bit. But I think it's not so
> important for me now.
> 
> Kind regards and good night
> Manfred

Please try adding the following two lines to VDR/svdrp.c:

--- svdrp.c     Sun Nov  4 12:25:05 2001
+++ svdrp.c     Sun Jan 13 12:25:32 2002
@@ -900,6 +900,7 @@
      if (NewConnection)
         lastActivity = time(NULL);
      if (file.Ready(false)) {
+        while (file.Ready(false)) {
         unsigned char c;
         int r = safe_read(file, &c, 1);
         if (r > 0) {
@@ -940,6 +941,7 @@
            isyslog(LOG_INFO, "lost connection to SVDRP client");
            Close();
            }
+        }
         }
      else if (Setup.SVDRPTimeout && time(NULL) - lastActivity > Setup.SVDRPTimeout) {
         isyslog(LOG_INFO, "timeout on SVDRP connection");

This should make it collect incoming characters faster, since it
won't return to the main loop after each character (haven't tested it, though).
Let me know if this speeds up things. I'll add it to the official
source then.

Klaus

> 
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> -------                   Manfred Schmidt-Voigt                  -------
> -----                  Günzweg 10, 22393 Hamburg                   -----
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> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org]Im Auftrag
> > von Robert Schneider
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2002 13:40
> > An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> > Betreff: [vdr] Re: epg2timer
> >
> >
> > I had that, too. What I did to cure the problem was to limit the
> > amount of
> > text for the description in epg2timers.cxx
> >
> > static const int max_summary = 250;
> >
> > That cured the problem on my end.
> >
> > Have no idea, though, why.
> >
> > vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org wrote on 09.01.2002 10:46:07:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I have used the epg2timer script with TVTV over Xmas to get all the
> > > programming of my VDR box clean, especially because of the messed
> > > up PRO7 epg (I 've got the same stupid answere from them as published
> > > here already) . It works realy good but one question is left:
> > >
> > > I had to set the timeout value in the script to an large value (>5min)
> > > because the programming of the timer via SVDR is very slow. Each
> > > line is updated on a ~30sec base and if you have 10 line to update
> > > it lasts a while. Is this something which can be solved by
> > configuration
> >
> > > or is there a bug in the SVDR connection? The deletion command for
> > > the old timer list is fast but the update of this list is very slow.
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Manfred Schmidt-Voigt

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