[vdr] Re: 1.1.33 and black screen

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

Jan Ekholm wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> >Jan Ekholm wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> I ran one day without disabling the EPG scan, and next morning the image
> >> was black again. After that I disabled the scan and now we've had no
> >> problems at all for a few days. Some recordings, some playbacks, some live
> >> TV, no problems. I'll try the same with never drivers as soon as I have a
> >> valid reason to restart VDR.
> >>
> >> May I ask what the "EPG scan timeout" does, and what does the 0 mean?
> >
> >>From VDR/MANUAL:
> >
> >  EPG scan timeout = 5   The time (in hours) of user inactivity after which the
> >                         DVB card in a single card system starts scanning channels
> >                         to keep the EPG up-to-date.
> >                         A value of '0' completely turns off scanning on both single
> >                         and multiple card systems.
> 
> Uh, oh, a complete lack of RTFM from my side, sorry... Would that mean
> that EPG is never scanned at all, and that it will after a while be
> outdated? I think I had it set to 0 a few months ago too, as it was
> suggested to improve stability, but I did always have accurate EPG data
> back then too. So is there some other "automatic" EPG feed that VDR will
> receive?

The EPG data of the current channel is always available (at least a few
seconds after tuning to that channel). What VDR does in its EPG scan is simply
to tune to the various transponders and stay there for a while, so that the
EPG data can be received.

Klaus
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