Hi, Udo Richter wrote: >>I've again a problem with the mysterious Errormessage "ERROR: video data >>stream broken". >> >>First of all I try to explain the setup of the friend of mine, who has >>the Problem... >>He has one PC with linvdr and VDR version 1.3.34 with 3 Cards: 2x FF >>cards and 1x LBudget card > > The typical base for the feared VDSB error... > > The most common chain of trouble is this: VDR uses the budget card to do > EPG scan as long as the second card is idle. Due to unknown reasons the > frequent channel changes from one transponder to the next suddenly cause > the budget card driver to hang, and no channel is tunable any more. This > doesn't cause any error messages, because EPG scan is a low-priority > task and mostly ignores errors. As soon as the next recording starts, > this tuning trouble will become more critical, and VDR does an emergency > exit to reload the DVB driver, that brings the card back to life (for > most users at least). To prove this, would you please try the attached patch (it's a simplified approach regarding my earlier posts). In DiSEqC setup's it repeats the DiSEqC message and retunes, if the tuner doesn't get a lock within 1000 ms or after loosing the lock for 1000 ms. In my setup with just two budget cards and a channels.conf with some outdated entries, I get log messages regarding tuning when EPG scan comes across such channels. > Some hints: > - Upgrade or downgrade driver and/or firmware > - IRQ's may be part of the problem, so try to give an own irq to the > budget card > - Disabling EPG scan helps > > The reasons behind VDSB are very complex, and not all aspects are known. > Some people suffer massively from it, others not at all, with identical > setups. Solutions that work for one case may not work for other cases, > thats making it difficult to fix it. Do some searching on the list and > at vdrportal to get more info. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vdr-1.3.37-tuner3.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 2997 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20051230/587ee0d0/vdr-1.3.37-tuner3.bin
