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

[Jouni Karvo <jouni.karvo@tkk.fi>]

(I cut some pieces off from the quote.)

Dr. Werner Fink writes:
 > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:45:39PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
 > > Rainer Zocholl wrote:
 > > >
 > > >why does the screen blank when a timer starts or stops?
 > > >
 > > 
 > > 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.
 > > 
 > 
 > IMHO it has nothing todo with the LNB_sharing patch.
 > It happens IMHO on all 2MB SDRAM FF cards if a replay or
 > transfer is already running an other recording is started.
 > If you start the recording _before_ replay something
 > or switching into transfer mode no screen blank happens.

When using budget + xine, there are large buffers, so the blank can
last even 1,5s.

Could it be possible to arrange it so that this preparation which
results in screen blanking is done whenever replay/transfer mode is
started so that it is not needed when the recording starts?

yours,
		Jouni