[vdr] Re: Workaround for UPT Errors

[Egalus <egalus@gmx.de>]

Frederick Page wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I got so annoyed by the "unknown picture type" error (occured a lot
> here lately), that I wrote some little shell-script which worked fine
> here. Thought I'd share this with you.
>  
Just a small question cause I think I solved my "unknown picture type" 
error problem.
Do you use the OSDTeletext plugin?
Cause my "unknown picture type" errors seem to be gone after I just 
removed the "-P osdteletext -r" from the vdr start.
As I almost never use this plugin I gladly live without it if I stop 
loosing records - and so far it seems to work.
I stresstested vdr more than once today in the attempt to reproduce the 
"unknown picture type" error after removing the osdteletext plugin and 3 
times started 5 recordings (5 mins on each recording) via timers with 
same starting and endtime on 5 different channels (on two transponders) 
on my 2 card system. And before, during and after the timer recorded the 
5 recordings I started zapping like crazy.
Result (on all 3 tries): All recordings were perfect, zapping during 
recording was much better than with osdteletext, only about every 30th 
switch I had small blockartefacts for some frames (<1 sec which I just 
mention cause with the osdteletext plugin I always had this artefacts 
when transfermode started and about ever 10th switching I had out of 
sync adui/video).

With osdteletext loaded the above mentioned procedure for sure led to 
unknown picture type errors.

@Klaus:
I know you tried hard to reproduce the unknown picture type error on 
your system, did you load osdteletext plugin during any of your tests?
If not, maybe you want to install this plugin and try to reproduce the 
unknown picture type error.

Regards,
Norbert





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