[vdr] V1.1.19: Problem with second DVB-S card ?

["Wiljo Heinen" <wiljo@offeryn.de>]

Hi !

Sorry for the following stupid Q (or statement of observation). I've been
lurking here the past weeks - but now I'll have to ask this.

Setup is with two DVB-S. One is Rev. 1.3, the other 2.1. The "primary" is
the rev. 1.3 card.

I decided to give it a try and installed vdr 1.1.19 yesterday. But I do have
a problem with vdr accessing the second card. To me it looks like it has
something to do with "retuning" a channel.

With 1.0.4 the behaviour was:

-------- log with vdr 1.0.4: ---------------
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: timer 65 start
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: switching to channel 4
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: ERROR: channel 4 not sync'ed on DVB card 2!
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: retrying
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: Title: 'Quarks & Co' Subtitle: 'Wunderdroge
Tee
'
Dec 10 21:23:58 quark vdr[1065]: record
/video0/Quarks_&_Co/2002-12-10.20:56.99.
99.rec
-------------------------------------------
... and from here everything goes fine.

Which implies to me that vdr first "had its problems" with the channel on
the second card. "Retried" (retuned ???) and then everything (including the
recording ....) went fine.

Unfortunately (for me....) the behaviour of 1.1.19 is different:


---------- log from vdr 1.1.19 ---------------
Dec 10 21:15:43 quark vdr[2580]: recording thread started (pid=2580)
Dec 10 21:15:43 quark vdr[2581]: receiver thread started on device 2
(pid=2581)
Dec 10 21:15:44 quark vdr[2571]: max. latency time 1 seconds
Dec 10 21:16:14 quark vdr[2581]: ERROR: video data stream broken on device 2
Dec 10 21:16:14 quark vdr[2581]: initiating emergency exit
Dec 10 21:16:14 quark vdr[2571]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
---------------------------------------------

Again - there are these problems with the second card. But this time vdr
does not "retry" anything (at least it does not tell me) but instead
initiates an "emergency exit". Which is too bad for the recording, as vdr
will exhibit the same behaviour on every subsequent start (from runvdr).

NOW: Of course, reading the list, the usual recommendations such as "swap
the cards" etc. could be applied. And it may be the IRQ or whatever... BUT:
to me it looks as if the behaviour of 1.0.4 vs. 1.1.19 is significantly
different, to warrant a look into the sources ?

Unless - of course - I am overlooking something here, which might very well
be the case...

Regards

   Wiljo



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