On 01 Feb 2007 Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@xxxxxx> wrote: > Heikki Manninen wrote: > >>> I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 >>> (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels >>> simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember >>> there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr 1.4.4 after >>> fourth recording starts vdr becomes sluggish and there starts to come >>> errors on log: >>> dvb-ttpci: warning: timeout waiting in LoadBitmap >>> when pushing menu button. And ofcourse no menu appears or menu appears >>> only partly. >> >> Exactly the same thing here and with the latest and the second latest >> firmware. My FF 2.1 TT card starts to die after third simultaneous >> recording. But then again, I think that budget cards are much better in >> this area. > > Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker > was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason > why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same time. I don't think that the problem is related to anything on VDR side. AFAIK the bandwidth from ARM to PCI bus is very limited on full-featured cards. With 3 recordings being transfered to VDR there is simply not enough bandwidth left for the OSD transfers. Hence the LoadBitmap timeout. I experience the problem since VDR introduced concurrent recordings and I cannot believe that there is any VDR / firmware combination which doesn't show this behaviour as it's IMO a hardware limitation. Budget cards doesn't have this limitation, they can transfer the full transponder without problems. Regards. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt@xxxxxx | http://www.muempf.de/
