[vdr] Re: black screen, no audio, but OSD still working aftercouple of hours]

[Mortimer Griepentrog <griepentrog@web.de>]

Hi!
The situation changed now a bit. I bought a WinTV Nova on ebay and put 
it in my system and now the problem is gone. Everything works fine.
But although I will try the version 1.1.13 of vdr and remove the 
Nova-card to test it. But this takes a will. I will report you the results.

cu,
		Mortimer

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Mortimer Griepentrog wrote:
> 
>>>>I set up vdr 1.0.4 and it works fine. But still there is one
>>>>problem.
>>>>After a few hours of no user-activity the vdr starts an EPG-scan
>>>>which is observable on the TV-screen. It seems to do it endless
>>>>(At least I observed six scans before I gave up and pressed a
>>>>button. I got back picture and audio on my
>>>>switched channel.) During the night though (or another time with
>>>>no user-action) when I am not there to press a button the screen
>>>>goes black and audio is gone.
>>>>In the morning when I press the menu-button on the
>>>>remote-control the /var/log/messages shows "switching to channel
>>>>x".
>>>>While x is the last channel I tuned in. On the TV-screen I can
>>>>see the OSD-menu. But nothing else appears. No picture, no
>>>>audio, only OSD-menu.
>>>>Anyone out there with a solution of this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>>What happens if you manually switch channels in such a case?
>>>Does it work, or are you generally unable to switch channels
>>>in such a situation?
>>
>>When the screen is black and the audio is gone I can switch channels
>>with the remote control but the only thing I can see then on the
>>tv-screen is the channel number AND the epg-information but no video and
>>audio.
>>
>>In the meantime I had the chance to observ how the screen gets black
>>during EPG-scan. First there are some mpeg-artefacts on a channel. They
>>get more while tuning during epg-scan and the picture stops, vdr has
>>problems to show the picture, audio still there. Then suddenly the
>>picture gets black and audio is gone. This procedure takes hours to be
>>observed: Another time I watched it for two hours and nothing happend.
>>The time I saw it the EPG-scan was running for about 4 hours.
> 
> 
> This may be the driver's problems with doing lots of channels switching.
> Please try if this also happens with version 1.1.13. Here only the transponders
> are tuned to in the EPG scan, but the PIDs are not set. Maybe this helps.
> 
> Klaus




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