[vdr] Re: Annoying EMERGENCY EXITs

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2003-06-10 um 23.23 schrieb Carsten Koch:
> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> ...
> > So I think it is important to overwork the error-handling in VDR.
> > 
> > VDR should differ which kind of error it has. I think only one out of
> > 200 hundred restarts is really caused by the driver.
> 
> Are you implying that in 199 cases it is a vdr bug that causes
> the exit? I do not think so.

Not a bug, but a feature ;o)

Nearly every time bad weather is the reason for emergency exits.
VDR should handle this.

> 
> I have been using vdr since June 2000
> (see http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/vdr-counter.pl?action=show&number=3 ).

Fine, you're one year ahead! Grrrins ;o)

> At times, the driver quality was so bad, that it was a matter of survival
> to implement things like the emergency exit and the watchdog timer.
> I was very grateful when Klaus put those features in. It helped a lot!

I also do remind that times ... and the driver still isn't reliable and
I think it will never be.

> 
> I believe the driver quality is a lot better today and maybe the emergency
> exit and the watchdog timer are no longer matter of survival, but I find
> them still useful

I don't want to have them removed, but they should be more
intelligently. In case of a serious crash they should work, but not in
case of bad weather.

 and I have not encountered a single case in three years
> of regular VDR use where VDR did a false emergency exit.
> 

Every time bad weather comes up ...

Rene



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