Hi, I am having the same problem even with 1.3.22 and 1.3.23. I have not been able to find any reasonable information for solving this problem. regards, Chris Rainer Zocholl wrote: > Sorry if this is solved with a newer version, but i did not find a hint. > (I still run 1.3.18) > > > if found a very strange and "unnice" behavior of when trying to record > > TV6;X-Gate:12610:vC56:S19.2E:22000:100:101=deu:4201:0:12301:1:1112:0 > > After one hour of recording (in the background!) the TV screen > of the running replay(!) becomes black and the remote control does > not work any more. > A reboot does not help. > That's reproducible! > > Nearer investitgation shows, that for a few second "ARD" channel is displayed > and then the screen becomes black again. > > /var/log/syslog fills with > > vdr[19538]: info: Channel not available! > vdr[19538]: ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD! > vdr[19538]: switching to channel 4 > vdr[19538]: info: Channel not available! > > A cold reboot shows that VDR runs into "panic" and tries to do a restart of > itself a few second after it resumes the recording. > > > 55:03 vdr[18461]: non blocking file reader thread started(pid=18461, tid=3375120) > 03:01 vdr[12923]: ERROR: video data stream broken > 03:01 vdr[12923]: initiating emergency exit > 03:02 vdr[1659]: emergency exit requested - shutting down > 03:02 vdr[12924]: recording thread ended (pid=12924, tid=3178513) > 03:02 vdr[12923]: file writer thread ended (pid=12923,tid=3162126) > 03:02 vdr[1659]: cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 2 TS continuity errors > 03:02 vdr[1659]: cTS2PES got 1 TS errors, 4 TS continuity errors > 03:02 vdr[1659]: buffer stats: 65988 (1%) used > 03:02 vdr[1659]: timer 114 (...) stop > 03:02 vdr[18461]: non blocking file reader thread ended (pid=18461, tid=3375120) > 03:02 vdr[18460]: dvbplayer thread ended (pid=18460,tid=3358733) > 03:02 vdr[1659]: saved setup to /video0/setup.conf > 03:02 vdr[1663]: tuner on device 1 thread ended (pid=1663, tid=16386) > 03:21 vdr[19538]: VDR version 1.3.18 started > 03:31 vdr[19538]: no free DVB device to record channel 108! > > > > I assume the channel is alternating between encrypted and not > (without signaling it?). > VDR missinterprets the encryption as "data stream broken" :-( > > I can reproduce the dying vdr simply by starting a recording on > that channel. (Remember: EPG data is present!) > > > > Question: > > Why is it still required that VDRs reaction is so hard? > I remember 4 years back: at that time it was OK, as too > many problems existed. But today? > > Why can't VDR display a begign on screen message > "Videos data stream broken during recording, > OK=restart, all other suspends recording for today?" > for say 5 minutes (If there were really a "stream broken", > it would not matter if restarting now or in 5 minutes! The > recording is bad anyway. But would matter a lot if > the instant restart would break other recordings)! > Or just record the black screen as it was told by the user? > > > > > Rainer > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Chris.Ariyo.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 897 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050404/48f6c90a/Chris.Ariyo-0001.vcf