VDR Stability

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I have used VDR successfully for about 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 after I did a few kernel changes that 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 with skipped bytes to sync to a TS
packet it is unwatchable. 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 still
unstable. 

 

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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