On Monday 08 August 2005 10:19, Carsten Koch wrote: > Malte Schr?der wrote: > ... > > >>>Which "defect" is that? > >> > >>It stops for a reason I have not yet found > > > > I think I am experiencing the same problem. When I activate the > > automatic EPG scan (i.e. timeout of 2 hours) my VDR suddenly stops > > responding to anything, I think around the time when it should be > > scaning. Neither remote, nor svdrp work then, and the watchdog does not > > restart it. It just sits there doing nothing. There is nothing > > suspicious in the logs. > > I have a FF-TechnoTrend DVB-S and a budget Airstar2 DVB-T. > > I wonder what happens if VDR encounters an HDTV channel > with a FF card during an EPG scan. > Since new channels may get entered into channels.conf automatically, > you may not even know that you have an HDTV channel in it. Should not be a problem, since only the receiving unit of the FF card is used. What causes troubles is the mpeg decoder chip which cannot handle the HDTV data rate (as far as I understand things). --Stefan
