[vdr] Re: Something wrong with bbc four today? (and vdr-1.3.17reacts badly)

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

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > > Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > >
> > > > Today there's no way I can tune bbc four
> > > >
> > > > BBC 
> > > > FOUR;BSkyB:10773:hC56:S28.2E:22000:2331:2333=eng,2337=NAR:2332:0:6316:2:2045:0 
> > > >
> > > > other bbc channels are fine.
> > > > femon tells me that the signal is good, with a low (or zero) ber and 
> > > > no unc, but the video is at 0.3 Mbits/seconds. Yesterday it worked.
> > > > vdr gives a bazillion "ring buffer overflow" and when I try to 
> > > > switch to another channel "ERROR: thread 213002 won't end (waited 3 
> > > > seconds) - cancelling it...".
> > > > Before someone asks, no, it's not vdr-1.3.17 specific, since it 
> > > > occurs the same with vdr-1.3.12, so maybe there's something wrong 
> > > > with this channel today?
> > > > However there's a difference: with vdr-1.3.12 I can switch to 
> > > > another channel and everything is fine, while with 1.3.17 I cannot 
> > > > (the screen stays black and/or vdr becomes unresponsive) and if I 
> > > > try to restart it will eventually hang until the watchdog timer 
> > > > kicks in.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That channel works just fine here, both directly on the primary
> > > device (FF DVB-S) and via Transfer Mode.
> > >
> > > The TPID is different here, though:
> > >
> > > BBC 
> > > FOUR;BSkyB:10773:hC56:S28.2E:22000:2333:2335=eng,2339=NAR:2334:0:6316:2:2045:0 
> > >
> > > but that shouldn't matter.
> > >
> > > Klaus
> >
> >
> > Oops, I just realized that you apparently have the wrong VPID and APID.
> > Try the values I've posted.
>
> That are the pids for Cbeebies here
>
> CBeebies;BSkyB:10773:hC56:S28.2E:22000:2333:2335=eng,2339=NAR:2334:0:6318:2:2045:0 
> (they should actually be the same channel, only transmitting at 
> different times, but I've always had both lines in channels.conf with no 
> problem until today).
>
> > Have you turned off updating PIDs?
>
> No, I have UpdateChannels set to 4.
> Anyway, now I deleted the "bbc four" entry and left only the "cbeebies" 
> one. Let's see if it comes back but, why would vdr-1.3.12 recover 
> gracefully and vdr-1.3.17 hang?
Are you using a plugin to implement the output device?
Some plugins are known to have serious trouble with the latest changes
to the thread handling.

Klaus