[vdr] Transfer mode (was: Messages in syslog)

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

Hello,
as I'm curently switching to sat reception I am running a setup of one DVB-C and one DVB-S (primary interface). Both are rev. 1.3 from FSC.

Since the dish is not operational yet, all channels are watched in transfer mode.
But after watching for 5-10 Minutes the transfer mode stops (just as if a recording has just started on the secondary DVB-C).

I couldn't find anything useful in the /var/log/messages
Sometimes there is a message like 'buffer empty'.

What's happening ?
CU,
Christian.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Schmidinger [mailto:Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:45 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Messages in syslog
> 
> 
> Lauri Tischler wrote:
> > 
> > Following stuff is found in syslog, the vdr-box is sitting 
> idle at the moment,
> > no recordings, nothing happening.
> > Why are there 'buffer empty' messages, looks like useless info.
> > If nothing happens, would those buffer overflow messages 
> somehow relate
> > to epg-updates ?
> > 
> > -------
> > Sep 16 09:52:50 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 09:53:25 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 09:54:08 vdr syys   16 09:54:08 vdr[919]: ERROR: 
> unknown picture type
> > '6'
> > Sep 16 09:54:51 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 09:55:30 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 10:02:34 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer 
> usage: 80% (pid=919)
> > Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer 
> usage: 85% (pid=919)
> > Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer 
> usage: 90% (pid=919)
> > Sep 16 10:10:04 vdr syys   16 10:10:04 vdr[920]: buffer 
> usage: 95% (pid=919)
> > Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: buffer 
> usage: 100% (pid=919)
> > Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: ERROR: 
> ring buffer overflow
> > (61 bytes dropped)
> > Sep 16 10:10:06 vdr syys   16 10:10:06 vdr[920]: ERROR: 
> ring buffer overflow
> > (188 bytes dropped)
> > Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr last message repeated 303 times
> > Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr syys   16 10:10:07 vdr[920]: ERROR: 
> ring buffer overflow
> > (188 bytes dropped)
> > Sep 16 10:10:07 vdr last message repeated 479 times
> > Sep 16 10:10:09 vdr syys   16 10:10:09 vdr[919]: ERROR: 
> skipped 127 byte to
> > sync on TS packet
> > Sep 16 10:13:13 vdr syys   16 10:13:13 vdr[919]: ERROR: 
> unknown picture type
> > '5'
> > Sep 16 10:16:07 vdr syys   16 10:16:07 vdr[919]: ERROR: 
> unknown picture type
> > '4'
> > Sep 16 10:28:53 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 10:30:18 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 10:32:06 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > Sep 16 10:32:54 vdr last message repeated 2 times
> > Sep 16 10:35:34 vdr kernel: buffer empty
> > --------
> 
> Please check whether your VDR is currently showing a channel 
> in "Tansfer Mode".
> That could explain these messages.
> 
> Klaus
> -- 
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