Martin Dauskardt wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > @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. > The problem appeared with "Tagesschau" on ARD. Not every recording on > ARD or ZDF has buffer problems, but when it is live and maybe even 16:9, > it is very likely that it happens. And there is no chance to do an > additional recording on the same transponder without problems. > > I always use very recent drivers from hg, never older than 3 weeks. I > even patched it with the performance + refactoring patches > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=51207 > from Oliver ("UFO") which seems to make it a little bit better. Ah, sorry, I forgot to mention that I also have applied that patch. > >The driver I'm using is the Mercurial version 2006-02-05 (well, actually > >that's not _that_ recent, anyway) and the firmware version F12623 as > >of 2006-07-22. The size of my firmware file is 240044, and the md5sum > >is 099329687c91131e616b4dcd8a118a25. My CPU is an AMD K6/II 450. > > F12623 ? where do you get it from? has it ever been released officially? > I remember that Werner mentioned F12623 in vdrportal in June, but the > last version which was posted there is F22623 from May Ooops - I thought this would have been made public by now. @Werner: what's the status of firmware version F12623? Klaus
