On 05/26/07 18:57, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: > hi. > > since i get many lines of > > read incomplete section - len = 1127, r = 334 > > when my machine is recording and under heavy CPU load, i was curios what > this means. i had a look at the vdr source and saw that there is nearly > no code to recover from short reads from the corresponding > filedescriptor. my guess is, that this data is not important enougth to > be handled more carfully. but what is it for? i searched the web for > EIT DVB section filters a.s.o. but couldn't find any useful > information. can anybody give me some hints or point me in the right > direction regarding section filters? The data retrieved through the section filters is repeated frequently (like EPG data, channel data etc.), so if a packet is lost here it doesn't really matter that much. If you do get these errors a lot, though, it might be an indicator of other problems (bad reception, too much load etc.) Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr