[vdr] Re: Unkown Picture Type 6

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

Hello List

Since over 2 Years i have a System with 4 DVBīs CARDīs wich works
nerly perfect !

I often record more streams at the same Time so i need the 4 CARDīs


But (donīt ask my since wich time) i have broken Recordings.
First i was realy supressed because i thought that the Watchdog
should relaise a new Start of DRIVER and VDR wich should solve the Problem.

I also have this Error-Messages in the SYSLOG:

 Nov  4 00:02:07 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
 Nov  4 00:02:12 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
 Nov  4 00:02:14 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4'

(sometimes also '7')

My next idea was that something is wrong with the DVBīs CARDS and/or
the Dish or the Switch.

So i decided to do this:

Select a FTA-Channel (i tryed RTL)

And set DVB1 within the CA-Parameter of the Channellist. (This means that VDR make Transfermode
with Source DVB1 CARD to the Primary CARD

And i tryed this with DVB1, DVB2, DVB3, DVB4

And the Result i get was realy interesting:

DVB1 and DVB4 Works well.

on DVB2 and DVB3 i geht the same errors and Picture/Sound errors like on a Recording.


I donīt changed anything on the HARDWARE or at the SAT-Cables or the DISH.
Also a change of the SAT-Cable from DVB1 to DVB2 and a test with DVB2 as 
CA-Parameter helps - same Problem !

So there are only 2 options:

- I have 2 Damaged DVB CARDīs 
- There went something wrong within the Driver or VDR

The VDR is "plain Vanilla" at the moment with no Plugins or Patches and i use 
the DRIVER from Klaus Homepage.

Last night i had the Idea to change the DVB-CARDīs but i had no time to do this 
so i will try to do it today night - perhaps anyone of you have a idea what else
i can do !

Best Regards

Axel


> Hi everybody,

> Frederick Page wrote:
>> we just talked a few days about this, at least I have a log-file, it
>> occurred with driver 1.0.1, vdr 1.2.5 with Elchi_AIO3b and some
>> plugins. I was recording something and the timer tried to switch to an
>> encrypted channel.
>>
>> As you can see, the "do while true" loop in runvdr got broken, vdr did
>> _not_ automagically restart.
>>
>> Kind regards   Frederick

> I've a similar problem (corrupted recordings).

> I've assembled a Linux-PC dedicated to VDR in February 2001 with two
> Hauppauge DVB-S Revision 1.3 cards.  At that time I used SuSE Linux 7.1
> with Kernel 2.2.19 and stopped upgrading the software as soon as new DVB
> drivers started to require a 2.4 kernel.  I was a satisfied user of this
> system over these more than two years.  At least known bugs and missing
> features added to VDR in the mean time aside at least these corrupted
> recording problem never occured with VDR 1.0.x

> Two weeks ago I replaced the 40 GB harddisk with a 120 GB disk and took
> the chance to do a fresh install.  I thought the c't VDR knoppix/debian
> based VDR distristribution would be good starting point.  I also saw
> this as an opportunity to learn more about the Debian apt-get/dpkg
> packaging system (I'm used to RPM, which I know from SuSE/RedHat).
> and to keep the software more uptodate.

> Unfortunately the corrupted recording problem started to hit me soon
> after this upgrade.  For example yesterday:
> -----
> Nov  4 00:01:36 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> Nov  4 00:01:39 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
> Nov  4 00:02:00 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> Nov  4 00:02:06 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> Nov  4 00:02:07 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
> Nov  4 00:02:12 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
> Nov  4 00:02:14 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
> Nov  4 00:02:14 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> Nov  4 00:02:19 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> Nov  4 00:02:21 pefusvdr vdr[1356]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
> -----....
> Nov  4 01:42:00 pefusvdr vdr[752]: cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 14 TS
> continuity errors
> Nov  4 01:42:00 pefusvdr vdr[752]: cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 1 TS
> continuity errors
> Nov  4 01:42:00 pefusvdr vdr[752]: buffer stats: 153408 (2%) used
> Nov  4 01:42:00 pefusvdr vdr[752]: timer 17 (2 0003-0142 'grow or go - Die
> Architek- ten des global village') stop
> Nov  4 01:42:00 pefusvdr vdr[752]: deleting timer 17
> -----

> I would like to track this down or at least like to find a workaround,
> which
> doesn't require to install some obscure softcam-plugin, since I only watch
> free-to-air programs.

> I've some experience with software development and debugging,
> but my knowledge about the internals of the DVB drivers and VDR is
> nearly zero.

> Any hints appreciated.

> Regards, Peter
> --
> Peter Funk, Oldenburger Str.86, D-27777 Ganderkesee, Germany
> http://wecanstopspam.org


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