The problem occurs when running xine with dxr3 output (xine --verbose=1 -V dxr3 -A alsa vdr:/tmp/vdr-xi/stream)
hmm, when disabling color bar output of the dxr3 card, I do get a picture (albeit it is black&white, wrong size and of terrible quality), but at least vdr stays responsive and out of trouble...
/Peter Odéus