hi, Steffen Barszus writes: > Shouldn't it be enough to do not sprecify -w option ? : > > -w SEC, --watchdog=SEC activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of SEC > seconds (default: 0); '0' disables the watchdog The problem is that the watchdog timer is able to recover from some VDR or VDR+plugin problems, and should have a short timeout, such as one minute, whereas the recording stuff should not have a timeout (unless for some that have buggy drivers). yours, Jouni