On 22.05.2009 09:07, Jan Ekholm wrote: > Good morning, > > I see logging like this all the time in my syslog file: > > May 22 06:36:45 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel > 31, tp 298 > May 22 06:37:06 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel > 33, tp 322 > > And: > > May 22 09:59:58 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 41, tp 338 > May 22 09:59:59 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 41, tp > 338 > May 22 10:00:01 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 41, tp 338 > May 22 10:00:01 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 41, tp > 338 > > What does this mean? The channels referred to (31, 33 and 41) are channels > that we never, ever watch as they are encrypted. Normally these three or > neighbor channels are referred to in the error logging. We almost never use > channels above 20. So, why does VDR try to tune into them and why would it > fail? We have two FF cards but we still would like them both to do something > that benefits us, not go randomly tune into uninteresting channels. :) Well, I'm still working on the code that reads the user's mind and determines what they might find "interesting" ;-) You can turn off the EPG scan to keep VDR from tuning through the various transponders. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr