On Thursday 20 March 2008 09:57:11 Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently started using dvbstream (instead of dvbrecord) to > record shows using cron but I'm finding it to be very unreliable. > > Depending on my reception quality, it has a tendency to segfault > fairly regularly - enough that I wrote a script to reload it after > a segfault so that I wouldn't miss my recording. With this set up > it usually segfaults once every 15 minutes or so, and sometimes as > often as every 4-5 minutes if the reception isn't so great. > > Sometimes it doesn't segfault though, it just stops recording for > some reason (the output file only grows by a few bytes a minute.) > This is worse because it doesn't terminate, so my script isn't able > to reload it to catch the rest of the recording. > > For those people using dvbstream to do their recording, are any of > you having issues like this? > > I'm running CVS from 2008-02-24 and I'm using -prog to record based > on the program instead of using PIDs (as our broadcasters here seem > to change their PIDs without warning every couple of months.) > > I'm hoping there's some easy fix for this, because I'd rather not > have to try to get dvbrecord to work again! > > Thanks, > Adam. > I use it for hours, even forgetting that it's recording, without segfaults. Try to run it under gdb (after having compiled it with -g) and see with "bt" where it segfaults, or bugs can't be fixed _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
