Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Luca Olivetti wrote: >> En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: >>> Udo Richter wrote: >>>> Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: >>>>> I am experiencing VDR errors when loading EPG via SVDRP. If the EPG >>>>> data to >> ... >>> >>> I have recently sent the attached patch to Thomas Koch <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>. >>> It dramatically speeds up getting EPG information from VDR. >> >> I think the OP problem is the reverse: getting EPG data into vdr, not >> out of it. >> >> Bye > > Indeed, I was referring to the problem of loading the data to VDR. > Tweaking the watchdog > timer looks like a dirty workaround to me - the value depending on > amount of EPG data to > be loaded divided by the speed at which this data could be transferred > to VDR (do we assume > loopback access, or ethernet? maybe wireless or WAN/VPN access?). > > I have neither investigated the problem deeper yet (just found a way to > split the EPG data into > parts), nor looked in the source code. Is it so difficult to convince > the watchdog that while SVDR thread is busy it is actually doing useful > work? Pjotr, How did you split the information up? I have a 17MB xmltv file which I would like to upload into VDR. Is it possible to adjust xmltv2vdr.pl to split the xmltv epg into parts too? My python knowledge is limited, but I am willing to have a stab at it. -- Latest news on http://www.streetcredo.org.uk/rob Rob Davis
