After I've upgraded to vdr-1.3.22 I've had problems with "channel not available", when there is any timer recording. I have one full card and two budgets, all of which are DVB-C, and can (in theory) receive the same channels. Actually (of course) only the full card can receive encrypted channels. One example was yesterday. There was a timer on channel 5 (not encrypted = can be received on cards 1-3). This timer started on device 1 (full card). When the timer was recording VDR kept saying "channel not available" every time I tried to view encrypted channel. The timer was started on a full device, which isn't a good idea as all the budget cards too can receive the channel. But even after the timer was running on a full card, I have thought VDR would swap the timer to another card, if the full card was needed for a channel it only could provide. This did not happen now. Why not? There was no other timers. What I could see in syslog was: Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: switching device 1 to channel 5 Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: timer 2 (5 1709-1808 'Robot Wars') start Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: Title: 'Robot Wars' Subtitle: '(null)' Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: record /mnt/raid2/vdr/Robot_Wars/2005-03-12.17:09.10.10.rec Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: creating directory /mnt/raid2/vdr/Robot_Wars Mar 12 17:09:00 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: creating directory /mnt/raid2/vdr/Robot_Wars/2005-03-12.17:09.10.10.rec Mar 12 17:09:04 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: recording to '/mnt/raid2/vdr/Robot_Wars/2005-03-12.17:09.10.10.rec/001.vdr' Mar 12 17:09:04 mewtwovdr vdr[29555]: file writer thread started (pid=29555, tid=1277964) Mar 12 17:09:04 mewtwovdr vdr[29556]: recording thread started (pid=29556, tid=1294354) Mar 12 17:09:05 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: switching to channel 2 And later on when trying to view encrypted channel (only receivable on device 1): Mar 12 17:52:24 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: switching to channel 8 Mar 12 17:52:24 mewtwovdr vdr[29587]: transfer thread ended (pid=29587, tid=1605648) Mar 12 17:52:24 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: buffer stats: 58844 (2%) used Mar 12 17:52:24 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: info: Kanava ei ole k<E4>ytett<E4>viss<E4>! Mar 12 17:52:34 mewtwovdr vdr[29424]: switching to channel 3 The channel 5 from channels.conf: subtv;Citytv Oy:290000:C0M128:C:5900:353:609=fin:865:0:97:0:2:0 and channel 8: Animal Planet;Telenor:138000:C0M128:C:6900:1000:1001=eng:302:B00:407:0:8:0 Plugins I have running are: Subtitles Ttxtsubs Xine Femon Mplayer Osdteletext Teemu
