On 05/23/09 11:42, Jan Ekholm wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2009 14:22:16 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> 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. > > But turning off the scanning means there's no EPG data? I would rather just > disable the channels in channels.conf (or similar) so that they are there and > updated with new data should they ever be needed. No point in VDR scanning a > lot of channels (100+) that we can't anyway access nor want to have any EPG > data for. EPG data is always collected for the transponders you actually tune to. The EPG scan just automatically switches through all transponders, which is apparently not what you want. You could also remove all unwanted channels from your list and set "DVB/Update channels" to "names and PIDs". Then the EPG scan would only switch through the desired transponders. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
