[vdr] Re: screen blanks on record start/stop

[Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de>]

werner@suse.de(Dr. Werner Fink)  13.12.04 13:21

>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:45:39PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>
>>>why does the screen blank when a timer starts or stops?
>>>
>>>It's not a horrible problem, but i'm intereesed why this
>>>seems to be always required.
>>>
>>>
>>>VDR1.3.17, new AV711x firmware.
>>>3*DVB-S 2.1/1.5 FF, 1*DVB-T
>>>LNB_sharing
>>>
>>>
>>>Rainer
>>
>> Normally this should only happen when a recording is started
>> on the primary device, because then the live signal is put
>> into "Transfer Mode", which results in a short blackout.
>>
>> I don't know, though, whether the LNB_sharing patch has
>> something to do with what you observe...

>IMHO it has nothing todo with the LNB_sharing patch.
>It happens IMHO on all 2MB SDRAM FF cards 

Yes.

>if a replay or transfer is already running an 
>other recording is started.

That could be true.

>If you start the recording _before_ replay something
>or switching into transfer mode no screen blank happens.

Yes.

>If you're using a 4MB SDRAM FF card you do not see any
>screen blank regardless of the order of starting the
>replay/transfer and the recording.

>I'm investigating currently how to avoid this problem.


Thanks a lot!


Rainer