Wolfgang Fritz wrote: > Hello, > > I want to report a problem with VDR when a recording is tried while no > signal is available. > > Last week a small local "blizzard" covered my dish with snow so I lost > the sat signal. > > When VDR started a recording in this situation, its response to the RC > became extremely sluggish with several seconds delay between a RC key > press and the reaction. Whe the "recording" finally terminated, the > response times became normal again. The sat signal was still unavailable. > > The CPU load stayed low (nearly 0) in this situation, and no RC keys got > lost. > > This happened with VDR 1.3.39 with jummplay patch applied, Kernel 2.6.15 > and v4l-dvb CVS drivers from 3.1.2006. I did not try a vanilla VDR but > can do this if required. > > I have attached a syslog excerpt. > > Wolfgang > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec > Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' > Jan 17 19:59:02 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 > Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Apparently you have enabled the line //#define WAIT_FOR_TUNER_LOCK in device.c. By default this line is not active, so if you haven't enabled it yourself (in which case you shouldn't be surprised by the behavior) I wonder which patch did so? If a patch activates this line, I strongly recommend the patch author refrains from doing so! Klaus > Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr > Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' > Jan 17 19:59:08 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr > Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' > Jan 17 19:59:12 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953
