Anssi Hannula wrote: > Martin Dauskardt wrote: >> I upgraded to 1.4.1-4, which seems to include the patch from Anssi >> (http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-August/010360.html ) >> >> I am not happy with this patch: My machine has a FF-card and >> Budget-Card+CAM. There was no timer for any encrypted channel >> programmed. All active timers were set for ARD. I had absolutely no >> plans to watch Premiere, I was not even at home :-) >> But all recordings were done with the FF card. vdr started with the ARD >> channel, and the well known performance problem of FF cards resulted in >> bad recordings (buffer usage ... /clearing). > > Interesting. So there was just one channel recording and the FF card > already run out of bandwidth? > > Do you use a recent (like newer than 1 year) DVB driver and firmware? @Martin: any news on this? With recent drivers and firmware it should be possible to record and watch even the high-bandwidth channels like ZDF on a FF card. Klaus
