[vdr] Re: vdr crashes "buffer 100" or "Data stream broken"

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

Andreas Portz wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Pentium 233MMX, 224 MB, 120 GB
> 2x Siemens DVB-S 1.3
> vdr: 1.0.4 no patches etc.
> DVB: 0.9.4
> Suse 8.0
> 
> Recording one program works fine. Event cutting or a little bit time
> shift. As far as I start 2 concurrent recordings, vdr crashes with the
> well known "buffer 76% .. buffer 77% .. buffer 100%". Somewhere I got
> the tip to increase VIDEOBUFFSIZE in dvbapi.c from 1 to 10 MB. That
> keeps the vdr alive for about 45 sec. With 25 MB, it runs some minutes
> and dies in most cases without any warning with a "video data stream
> broken". Sometimes it counts it's buffer up to 80 or 82% an keeps
> working a few minutes longer. With 40(!!!!!!!!!) MB buffer, it seems to
> run stable if I don't do anything else. Even the cronjob for the
> master-timer scan or kvdr crashes the vdr after some seconds or minutes
> with the " ... broken".
> Any ideas?

Do you have DMA enabled?

--> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

Klaus
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