[vdr] Re: DVB-C and VDR 1.1.20 // Is zapping really faster???

[Micael Beronius <micael.beronius@telia.com>]

Hello Alexander,

I can only confirm that changing channels are very slow on my vdr
installation as well, 5-10 seconds perhaps. However, if I use czap,
I'm down to about 3-4 seconds, which is OK but not very good either.
I do not really have any experience of the older vdr versions, since I
had great problems with the driver at the time. 5-10 seconds is really
not very usable, and some times i don't get a lock unless going for a
another channel and back.
Currently I most of the time use dvbX (under win2k) to do recordings,
since I also have a lot of problems with the CI/CAM driver issues.
I guess I blame the firmware for most of the problems, which is a
shame.

 Micael

Sunday, December 22, 2002, 6:25:23 PM, you wrote:

AD> Hello all,

AD> I was just playing around with the 1.1.20 as I found the time today to do some 
AD> installationwork. Here's what I exprienced:

AD> Basic configuration:

AD> SuSE 8.1, Kernel 2.4.19
AD> DVB Snapshot from 15.12.2002
AD> VDR 1.1.20
AD> LIRC

AD> Installation of the driver was no problem at all, nor compilation of VDR 
AD> 1.1.20. It started with the awaited prompt ro configure the keyboardmapping, 
AD> though I compiled with NO_KBD=1 - but hey, I don't care! But, when it comes 
AD> to zapping through the channels, I felt it became a lot slower (maybe because 
AD> of the extra thread?). A look at top showed, that VDR takes 50% resources for 
AD> 1-10 secs, then the channel is viewable and the CPU-load is back to 2-6%. 
AD> There seems to be no rules for that, just from time to time... It also takes 
AD> a lot more time to switch to specific channels by using the number (entering 
AD> it via remote), normally (version 1.1.14 e.g.) screen turns black and is 1-3 
AD> secs later back on the right channel showing the EPG, now it holds on the old 
AD> channel a while, switches black and needs up to 10 secs to tune the selected 
AD> channel.

AD> Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon? I really cannot say if it is the DVB 
AD> driver or VDR ...

AD> Cheers,
AD> Alex





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 Micael                            mailto:micael.beronius@telia.com



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