[vdr] Re: problems in (random) recordings

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

Uwe Weissbach wrote:
> 
> several times I got the following problems during recording:
> 
> - the recorded film (i.E. yesterdays "Happy Gilmore" on VOX)
> has video and audio stuttering and block artefacts
> 
> - the remarkablest thing: the recording of a 90 min film is only
> about 30 min, not aborted but apparent with missing 2/3 of the frames...
> 
> - This "shortening" is always the same if a film has this kind of distortions.
> 
> - The problem appears always during the whole film. It happens
> never later in the film (with a fine a beginning) nor disappears
> during the recording.
> 
> - I got it 3 times during aprox. 20 recordings...
> all other recordings has no problems (even with using timeshift,
> double recordings or other performance eating operations)
> 
> - It happens if the computer was running before some time (watching the
> "Tagesschau") and also with a fresh (automaticly by vdr_wakeup) rebooted
> computer deep in the night..
> 
> I have 1.0pre3 with 2 Siemes-Cards 1.3 running
> on Suse 7.3 with 2.4.16 Kernel
> 
> anybody has watch similar effects ???

Never had anything like that.

Are there any error messages in the log file that might tell us
what's wrong here?

Klaus
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