[vdr] Re: problems in (random) recordings

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

Uwe Weissbach wrote:
> 
> > > Never had anything like that.
> > >
> > > Are there any error messages in the log file that might tell us
> > > what's wrong here?
> >
> > unfortunatly I have deleted all this recordings, so it's hard to find
> > the dependend logs, but I will carefully look about it in future
> > and will tell you...
> 
> this was about the problem a recording of a 90min movie is only
> 30min and maybe lost 2/3 of the frames.
> ok, it happens again and here comes the /var/log/messages
> from the early beginning by booting via vdr-wakeup until
> the finally shutdown.
> The only thing I notice is the "ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card 2!"
> at Mar 18 00:35:38 and the retrying next line, maybe its the reason for this behavior
> but I'm absolutly knownless why this sometimes happens and mostly the box runs
> fine.
> ...
> Mar 18 00:34:37 mmbox vdr[1101]: switching to channel 5
> Mar 18 00:34:37 mmbox vdr[1101]: ERROR: channel 5 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Mar 18 00:34:37 mmbox vdr[1101]: panic level: 0
> Mar 18 00:34:37 mmbox vdr[1101]: retrying
> ...
> Mar 18 00:35:38 mmbox vdr[1101]: ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card 2!
> Mar 18 00:35:38 mmbox vdr[1101]: retrying

The only thing I would assume from the log messages is a problem with bad
reception. Could it be that there was heavy rain fall at that time? I had
such a problem recently with recordings from ZDF, which had heavy distortions.
These distortions happened exactly during times where the rain was extremely
heavy.

Klaus
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