[vdr] Re: Experiences with patched VDR 1.2.x (was Re: [PATCH] Old descriptorhandling with vdr 1.2.5)

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

Martin Holst wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I wonder if anyone of those, who have tried my patch, have any good or maybe
> even bad news. So first, here are my experiences with my patched VDR 1.2.5
> and DVB from 24.09.:
> 
> - no UPT-Errors
> - sometimes "video data stream broken", when recording starts on secondary
> card --> this provoke a restart
> - sometimes a black picture in live view (as I remember, even on the first
> card)
> 
> Meanwhile I've disabled EPG-scan and now I've the following results:
> 
> - no UPT-Errors
> - no "video data stream broken" error anymore
> - no restarts
> 
> So until now I've to say, that this is a valid workaround for those of us,
> who get the UPT-Error in vanilla vdr. But let us test this patch for at least
> 1-2 weeks, to see if a long running test also give us that result.
> 
> @Klaus: You said in another thread, that the "video data stream broken"
> error is a driver fault. But why do this behaviour only occur with enabled
> EPG-scan...

Maybe because then the cards switch transponders very often.
My guess would be that something in the driver or firmware
just can't handle too much channel switching...

> ...and why only on the secondary card?

Because the EPG scan is only performed on the non-primary cards
(unless you have a signle-card system).

Klaus


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