On 04/24/08 09:08, Simon Baxter wrote: > Hello > > I have 2x DVB-C cards with Alphacrypt multi-cams. A TT-1500-C budget > card and a TT-2300-C FF card and run vdr-xine. > > When recording one channel and attempting to watch another in the same > transport stream, or trying to switch to another transport stream (and > hence card) I get "channel not available" messages. After switching > back and forth to other transport streams, usually I can overcome this > problem. But occasionally I it won't play any channels in one specific > transport stream or another. > > What's the best way to diagnose this? How do I enable debugging to see > more info than is displayed in messages: > > Apr 24 18:53:56 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 8 > Apr 24 18:53:56 callin vdr: [30940] transfer thread started (pid=7375, > tid=30940) > Apr 24 18:53:57 callin vdr: [30939] femon receiver thread ended > (pid=7375, tid=30939) > Apr 24 18:53:57 callin vdr: [30941] femon receiver thread started > (pid=7375, tid=30941) > Apr 24 18:53:58 callin vdr: [30940] setting audio track to 1 (0) > Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 9 > Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [30940] transfer thread ended (pid=7375, > tid=30940) > Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] buffer stats: 47564 (2%) used > Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] info: Channel not available! > Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] ERROR: attempt to open OSD while it > is already open - using dummy OSD! > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 1 > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30942] transfer thread started (pid=7375, > tid=30942) > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30936] TS buffer on device 2 thread ended > (pid=7375, tid=30936) > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30935] buffer stats: 84600 (4%) used > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30935] receiver on device 2 thread ended > (pid=7375, tid=30935) > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30943] receiver on device 2 thread started > (pid=7375, tid=30943) > Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30944] TS buffer on device 2 thread started > (pid=7375, tid=30944) > Apr 24 18:54:23 callin vdr: [30945] femon receiver thread started > (pid=7375, tid=30945) > Apr 24 18:54:23 callin vdr: [30942] setting audio track to 1 (0) > Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 9 > Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [30942] transfer thread ended (pid=7375, > tid=30942) > Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] buffer stats: 194204 (9%) used > Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] info: Channel not available! > Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] ERROR: attempt to open OSD while it > is already open - using dummy OSD! > Apr 24 18:54:42 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 21 You could add some debug outputs to cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView) to find out why it thinks that channel 9 is not available. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr