[vdr] Re: Strange error-message

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

Wolfgang Goeller wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> On my second vcr-computer I have only one Sat-card: Nexus-S
> 
> No recording is done - the last finished one hour ago.
> (And it finished correct!). Now I see in the logfile:
> 
> Jun 21 00:18:19 gorgias vdr[4103]: buffer usage: 80% (pid=4102)
> Jun 21 00:18:23 gorgias vdr[4103]: buffer usage: 85% (pid=4102)
> Jun 21 00:18:23 gorgias vdr[4103]: buffer usage: 90% (pid=4102)
> Jun 21 00:18:23 gorgias vdr[4103]: buffer usage: 95% (pid=4102)
> Jun 21 00:18:23 gorgias vdr[4103]: buffer usage: 100% (pid=4102)
> 
> How on earth needs this buffer???
> 
> Might be the following information gives some light:
> 
> When I start recording I get messages like
> transfer thread started (pid=4010)
> receiver thread started on device 1 (pid=4011)
> 
> The message "transfer thread started" does not always show up,
> when I start recording - it appears when I start recording another
> station than the one, vdr is currently switched to.
> Shouldn't vdr switch channels, when starting to record?

When you start recording the currently watched channel on the primary
device, VDR puts that channel into Transfer Mode in order to allow you
to switch to different channels (on the same transponder) while not
interrupting the recording. I assume in your case the last recording
has put the current channel into TM and left it there after it finished.
Some time later the driver choked on some data and so the buffer overflowed.

The main thing we should try to find out is why the driver still (after
the recent increase in video buffer memory in the firmware) chokes
when playing some streams...

Klaus
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