[vdr] Re: With the new DVB drivers...

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

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > I was under the impression that it was clear that you could only record
> > channels on the same transponder - simple because there is only one tuner.
> >
> Yes, if one understands the difference between 'old' channels and 'new'
> channels.

What do you mean by 'old' and 'new' channels?

> BTW. I was recording a movie from channel 3.
> Channel 3 is on same uhf-channel as are channels 6,7 and 8
> While switchin during the recording the log gives odd errors
> --------
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[740]: switching to channel 2
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[885]: transfer thread ended
> (pid=885)
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[740]: buffer stats: 136488
> (13%) used
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[740]: switching to channel 1
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[740]: skipped channels 2..1
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[740]: switching to channel 3
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[886]: transfer thread started
> (pid=886)
> Sep 22 00:36:58 vdr syys   22 00:36:58 vdr[886]: ERROR: attempt to use
> cPlayer::PlayVideo() without attaching to a cDevice!
> Sep 22 00:36:59 vdr last message repeated 2716 times
> Sep 22 00:36:59 vdr syys   22 00:36:59 vdr[886]: ERROR: attempt to use
> cPlayer::PlayVideo() without attaching to a cDevice!
> Sep 22 00:36:59 vdr last message repeated 5182 times
> Sep 22 00:36:59 vdr syys   22 00:36:59 vdr[886]: ERROR (transfer.c,97):
> Operation not permitted
> Sep 22 00:36:59 vdr last message repeated 74 times
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[740]: switching to channel 4
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[886]: transfer thread ended
> (pid=886)
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[740]: buffer stats: 317156
> (30%) used
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[740]: switching to channel 5
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[740]: switching to channel 6
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[887]: transfer thread started
> (pid=887)
> Sep 22 00:37:08 vdr syys   22 00:37:08 vdr[740]: skipped channels 4..5
> Sep 22 00:37:23 vdr syys   22 00:37:23 vdr[740]: switching to channel 7
> Sep 22 00:37:23 vdr syys   22 00:37:23 vdr[887]: transfer thread ended
> (pid=887)
> Sep 22 00:37:23 vdr syys   22 00:37:23 vdr[740]: buffer stats: 39856
> (3%) used
> ---------------
> I wonder what are those 'ERROR attempt to use cPlayer........'
> and several thousends of them...

Looks like there's a race condition somewhere. I've seen this, too, here
and will take a look at it.

> Also it was possible to view recording channel but there was no sound.

Does the sound come back if you stop and re-stat the replay?

Klaus
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