Am Montag, 3. Januar 2005 13:38 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > > - VDR does an "emergency exit" when it fails to tune to a channel. This > > renders VDR to be completely unusable as long as at least one bad > > channel entry exists. A bad LNB, a broken cable or a bird in front of > > one of the LNBs would make VDR unusable, too. Why not just ignore (or > > give a warning) on bad entreis? > > Are you sure it does this just when you tune to such a channel? > Normally it should only do this when it wants to record something > and gets no useful data. In that case it does a restart in order to > reload the driver. > > > - VDR restarts continously when there is no signal in one of the > > available frontends. Therefore you can't put the box to a different > > location just to watch some recordings. You will need to take the dish > > along, although you don't want to watch live TV. > > Are you sure there is no recording scheduled at such a time? > If the driver were really rock solid stable, there probably would be > no reason for VDR to do any restarts, because a lack of signal would > just mean that there actually _is_ none. Unfortunately, at least in the > past, it happened ever so often that the driver just didn't deliver any > data any more, and only a driver reload fixed that. Ok, maybe we should > touch some file and only do a reload if that file is older than some given > value (yet another setup option, I'm afraid...). Hello altogether, I bought a Skystar2 recently as a second DVB-Card and use Kernel 2.6.9 with it. Everything's just fine when I use vdr, switch channels, watch TV .. I experienced what Klaus described above, but not the other way: vdr tunes the skystar2 to a channel, getting a lock on it, but nothing is shown! The Card delivers no data - only a driver reload fixes this. But vdr stays running, except when a timer is set. In that case it does an emergency exit - as Klaus explained. As a workaround I changed the order of my cards - now I would get a driver reload only when two recordings on different transponders are to be done. (my system: AMD Duron 700, KNC1 DVB-Station, Skystar2, vdr 1.3.16, vdr-xine 0.6.3) Cheers, Ulf PS: To Klaus - thanks a very lot for this great software!!
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