Andre Bischof wrote: ... > searched tids --- > Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: video directory scanner thread started > (pid=9709, tid=9710) > Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: video directory scanner thread started > (pid=9709, tid=9711) > --- searched tids > > Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 > Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: found 1 video device I now did an strace on them: strace -ff -F -o vdr-strace.txt ./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3.6 -p 2001 --video=/video -w 60 -u vdr -g vdr -P remote -P dxr3 the pids output shows some ENOENTs (file not found), which doesn't seem to disturb vdr, as video/audio are there: open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/osd0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0", O_RDWR) = 13 open("/proc/video/dev/video0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ioctl(4, 0x80a86f3d, 0xbfaa893c) = 0 open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) the tids output shows alot entries like this one: stat64("/video/14/etc/ssl/certs/ff783690.0", 0x40dffafc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) which comes because a moved a backup copy temporarly to my video dir (space problems). This dir is quite big ~26GB, maybe this is the problem? Could it be that every file is scanned in /video to build the record list? Ahrg, right at this very moment I read your reply, so moving unnecessary files from /video should do it. I also didn't know that -g means grab directory, I thought u and g were user and group :( Thanks for helping Klaus, I appreciate it much! Kind regards, Andr?