In my case driver/firmware problems does cause some problems with FF cards every now and then (usually black screen after boot), but instead of restarting vdr from itself by watchdog, I've made an error monitor script, that monitors syslog, restarts vdr and reloads drivers when error is seen there. This way I get faster reload when needed and can keep watchdog relatively long for some plugins that may cause high load for longer times (had some problems with burn plugin and shorter watchdog time). -- Tero 2007/3/19, Andreas Mair <Andreas.Mair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi! > > On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:45, Heikki Manninen wrote: > > On su, 2007-03-18 at 15:46 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > You can disable all the cThread::EmergencyExit() calls if you don't > > > want this. Maybe I should disable this by default in a future version - > > > and wait until people start complaining because recordings are > > > broken... ;-) > > > > I personally don't believe/experience that driver problems cause broken > > recordings nowadays or have been causing them in the past year or two. > > I don't know who's fault it is but I would have broken recordings if there > would be no emergency exit. It doesn't happen often, but most of the time > (or always?) I get "unknown picture type" or "video datastream broken" > errors if following conditions are met: > - EPG scan ON > - VDR runs some time before recording starts. E.g. when replaying a > recording and an EPG scan has been performed before starting recording. > > I never have that problem if EPG scan is off. > My VDR box has to FF DVB-s cards and it happened with different VDR (atm > 1.4.6), kernel (atm 2.6.18.6), dvb driver (atm Friday's "refactoring" > repository) and firmware (atm F12623) releases. > > So emergency exit is needed on my box, but I would prefer to have the cause > for UPT and VDSB fixed ;) > > > Regards, > Andreas > -- > http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM > VDR user #303 > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
