Hello, as I can't live anymore without master-timer, I would like to know if the change in vdr-1.3.38 breaks master-timer support ? And by the way, on 11 Dec 2005, Olaf Titz wrote on this ml a patch : --- vdr-1.3.37/epg.c~ 2005-11-11 14:37:43.000000000 +0100 +++ vdr-1.3.37/epg.c 2005-12-09 20:54:31.000000000 +0100 @@ -882,6 +882,12 @@ lastCleanup = now; ReportEpgBugFixStats(true); } + struct stat st; + if (!epgDataFileName || stat (epgDataFileName,&st) != 0) { + lastDump = 0; + } else { + lastDump = st.st_mtime; + } if (epgDataFileName && now - lastDump > 600) { cSafeFile f(epgDataFileName); if (f.Open()) { It should allow a force to save the EPG, I have done lots of test to try to really force it, but without success, for example like this : Kill vdr rm -f /video0/epg.data run vdr zap a lots under vdr such that EPG gets full touch -r /bin/bash /video0/epg.data sleep 60 ls -al /video0/epg.data still reports "0" as size... Thank you very much, -- Gr?goire FAVRE