[vdr] Re: Loss of Vision -Sound

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

Richard Scobie wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Richard Scobie wrote:
> >
> >>My channel list contains a number of frequencies used for itinerant
> >>feeds, so there is often no signal there when I zap through them.
> >>
> >>Under 1.0.4, the channel switching time was the same switching between
> >>active channels or vacant ones. With 1.1.15 switching back from a vacant
> >>channel to an active one takes a number of seconds and in all cases when
> >>  it does, the OSD channel indication with current and next events
> >>appears, but the screen remains blank. Switching to other active
> >>channels does not change this and VDR (not the driver) has to be
> >>restarted to get a signal back.
> >>
> >>Anything I can do to help?
> >>
> >>DVBs 2.1, 1.1.15 and 2002-11-01 all vanilla.
> >>Nov 13 19:58:01 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 2
> 
> >
> > Are there any useful messages in the log file when that happens?
> >
> > Klaus
> >
> 
> Thanks Klaus,
> 
> In the attached log section, channel 4,5 and 6 have no signal present.
> 
> Nov 13 19:58:01 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 2
> Nov 13 19:58:56 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 4
> Nov 13 19:59:01 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:01 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:04 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:04 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:07 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:07 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:12 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 5
> Nov 13 19:59:15 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:15 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:18 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:18 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:22 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:22 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:23 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 6
> Nov 13 19:59:26 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:26 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:29 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:29 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:32 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
> Nov 13 19:59:32 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
> Nov 13 19:59:34 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 1
> Nov 13 20:00:25 tx vdr[2375]: caught signal 15
> 
> The last line is where I did a "killall vdr", as no picture had returned
> when switching back to channel 1 - a active channel.

Well, nothing unusual there.
What I don't understand is why switching to a channel that does transmit doesn't
work after this. What happens if you switch back to channel 2? From the first
log entry I assume that that one did tune, so I would expect it to tune again.

Klaus
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