[vdr] Re: Necessity of Emergency Exits...

[Andreas Gebel <andreas@xcapenet.de>]

On Montag, 22. Juli 2002 21:36, you wrote:
> Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> ...
>
> > So, all we nee is to implement a check for snr values>0 before restarting
> > in case the videostream is broken !?
>
> I don't think this will always work.
> One of the many possible problems with that is, that snr
> is not implemented for all card types.
>
> I like the watchdog feature as it is.
> I would not touch it unless there is an improvement
> without any risks.
>
Why not solve this with recording priorities?
When a recorded videostream is broken, a emergency exit is called only when 
there is no recording with higher priority at the moment.

This would prevent important recordings to be broken by unimportant ones.

mfG.

Andreas

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