[vdr] Re: Remote Controll hangs while replay

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:41:57 +0100 (MET), Patrick Maier
<maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Schlegel" <miki@schlegel-net.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:58 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Remote Controll hangs while replay
> 
> 
> > Patrick Maier <maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
> >
> > > The RC works fine while normal use (Program changing, recording
> > > ....), but always when I'm in replay mode and I'm scanning through
> > > the recording, the RC hangs and I'm not able to controll VDR until
> > > replaymode stopps at the end of the recording.
> >
> > I have the same problem, while copying vdr files to my other
> > computer. But I never had this problem in the replay mode.
> >
> > > There's no errormessage in the logfiles.
> >
> > I didn't looked in the logfiles.
> >
> > cu
> >    miki
> >
> Hi,
> I analyzed my problem again and it seems to happen by accident. But then I
> recognized that it happened more often at the beginning of a longer
> recording (ca >15min). Then it happened that while replaying a File
> (1:15min) after 2 minits of no reaction, the VDR can be controlled with
> the
> RC again. From this Time the RC works better in this file. But in other
> longer files the problem reoccures...
> Is it possible, that VDR scans the file ore something else and blocks the
> lircd? (only an idea :-)

The problem is that the scanning (I assume you mean fast forward and
fast backward) is very cpu intensive. The same may happen when you start
cutting. I normally use the jump funktion to scan through recordings.

I think there has to be something done regarding cpu usage of the vdr
threads and with setting priorities for the threads to keep vdr
responsive in all situations.

Emil