Brougs78 schrieb: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> Ali H.M. Hoseini wrote: >>> hi all, >>> >>> I've noticed that when the signal quality goes low ( high BER or high >>> UNC), and if a timer records that channel simultaneously, the vdr exits >>> continuously, and hence produces too many recording files. >>> >>> How should I prevent vdr from exit, in this situations? >> Locate the line >> >> cThread::EmergencyExit(true); >> >> in recorder.c and comment it out. > Hi Klaus! > > I think the dvb-drivers is quite stable now. At least on my VDR there > are almost no problems with the stability. So I think there are maybe > zwo big issues left (I dont' know for sure) which can be "solved" by a > restart of the drivers (and VDR): > - the "good old" uknown picture type-error > - the video data stream broken-error > > Is it possible to distinguish between these errors and a reception-error > due to bad signal-quality (snow on the dish, very bad weather ...)? > > If there is a way to distinguish between this errors would it be > possible to make the emergency exit only if it can fix the problem? > On systems with more cards/dishes it could also help to check if there > is a ongoning recording wich has no problems (for example card 1 records > on one dish with good reception and card 2 tries to start a recording on > a dish with bad reception). Maybe if there are working ongoing > recordings the start of an additional recording which doesn't work > should not restart VDR as it interrupts the working recordings? > > So maybe a preferd behaviour of VDR could be: > upt or vdsb-error --> EmergencyExit if there is no working recording; do > nothing otherwise > errors which can be lead back to reception-issues --> do nothing > > What do you think? > I would like to add another issue that is related to this: If you have a VDR with more than one card, and you do not have connected a cable to all cards, VDR should try to record on a different card if it can not tune to the card it selected for recording first. I come into this situation because I sometimes use my VDR at a location where only one SAT cable is available. Regards, Wolfgang > Bye, > Andreas Brugger > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
