Thomas Bartschies wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing the usual DD A3 stream breaks here. Now I have discovered > that the epg scan seems to trigger them, by tuning to some channels. > > vdr logs frontend tuning timeouts synchronously to the stream breaks my > AV Receiver displays. They can only be caused by a background job like > the epg scan. Also the timeouts occur on the primary card, which seem > to be sometimes used to make scans. > > I'm not sure if the tuning timeouts were caused because the channels are > encrypted, or by invalid data in the channels.conf. But that should have no > meaning here. > > The timeouts can be caused by the firmware or driver, or in vdr by tuner > thread locking issues. I need help to sort this out. > > I have a three FF card system. Why does vdr use the Primary Card for > scans anyway? Shouldn't all of this occur on a non-primary card all of If VDR is currently replaying (or receiving in transfer mode from an other card) the primary card is available for recording as well as EPG scanning. > the time? How can I force vdr to not use the primary device for PID,EPG > and all other scans? At least for further testing. Edit cEITScanner::Process() so that it doesn't use the primary device. Klaus
