[vdr] Re: Annoying EMERGENCY EXITs

[Andy carter <fruit@ukgateway.net>]

On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:12 am, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Gunnar Roth wrote:
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > >If it's just the "emergency exits" you want to get rid of, try what I've
> > >posted earlier in this thread.
> > >
> > >Klaus
> >
> > The problem is not the emrgency exit, but the continuos exits on bad
> > weather ( heavy rain, lightning and thunder),
> > that make watching recordings impossible. as some other person mentioned,
> > if watching a recording, vdr should not exit, because of getting no
> > signal.
>
> I tested the following now: I started replaying and disconnected the
> antenna cable from my primary device. Replay continued undisturbed (as I
> would have expected) without any emergency exit. I even stopped and
> restarted replay several times - no problems at all. Then I disconnected
> the antenna cable from my other card as well, to have the EPG scanner no
> longer be able to tune to different transponders. No problem with the
> replay here, either. The only thing that happens in such cases is that the
> CPU usage of the kdvb-fe-N:0 threads rises to some 25% on my machine. But I
> guess that's normal, since the driver is trying to tune in to the
> transponder again.
>
> After stopping replay and reconnecting the sat cable the previously tuned
> channel didn't come back automatically, and when trying to explicitly
> switch to it I got lots of
[snip]

> At least that's what I'm observing here with VDR 1.2.1.

Much the same here with 1.2.0pre using Nova-t thru DVB-s except that on 
dis/reconnect the peviously tuned channel does come back automatically - with 
no log messages

Andy


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