VDR Stability

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I have used VDR for a 18 months now, but in the last 2 months found that
stability has gone completely out of the window. It started when I tried to
get the vdrsync code working to burn dvd's (never successful). 

I have a Pentium P4, 2.4Ghz, 512 MB Ram, 2 x 120 GB IDE disks, with an ASUS
motherboard. Cards are a TT-FF DVB-T and a Nebula DVB budget card. I had so
many problems I reverted to rebuilding the system from scratch. I was
working on linux 2.6.4, but listening to the list I upgraded to 2.6.11 on
the rebuild. 

Things have not got better. 

It is impossible to record anything from the budget card, which is VDR's
preferred card. I get so many errors trying to sync to skip bytes to sync to
a TS packet it is untrue. The recording makes old VCR's look good. Funny
this, because the DVBT enabled television is just fine. 

I tried recording just of the TT-FF card. OK, I can only record one signal
at a time, but at least it will be stable, right? Wrong. It's as unstable as
an unpatched windows box. 

For example: 

May 30 22:50:22 vdr vdr[8931]: timer 1 (1 2240-0045 'Total Recall') set to
event Mon 30.05.2005 22:50-00:35 'Total Recall'
May 30 22:54:11 vdr vdr[8935]: channel 1 (BBC ONE) event 22:50 'Total
Recall' status 4
May 30 23:03:38 vdr vdr[8935]: channel 3 (BBC THREE) event 23:00 'Ideal'
status 4
May 30 23:07:45 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5'
May 30 23:07:46 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
May 30 23:11:01 vdr vdr[8931]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 47508 - accepted
May 30 23:11:01 vdr vdr[8931]: closing SVDRP connection
May 30 23:16:50 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5'
May 30 23:18:30 vdr last message repeated 5 times
May 30 23:18:51 vdr last message repeated 2 times
May 30 23:21:02 vdr vdr[8931]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 43811 - accepted
May 30 23:21:02 vdr vdr[8931]: closing SVDRP connection
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5'
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5'
May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit
May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: timer 1 (1 2240-0045 'Total Recall') stop
May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: saved setup to /root/vdr/setup.conf
May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: exiting
May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: emergency exit!


My recording stops in the middle with an unknown picture type. At this
point, nothing I do other than reboot will restore VDRAdmin (probably the
most important feature of VDR IMHO). 

I have tried VDR 1.3.25, I have reverted to 1.3.20. I have taken the latest
versions of firmware, I have reverted to those that came with the card. 

Am I alone in thinking that, for anyone who wants to actually watch TV, the
answer is a SKY+ box. Please, god forbid it should come to that. 

What am I doing wrong here? 


HELP ! 


Adrian P Challinor




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