Hi all together, I have the same problem. Whenever VDR records a channel I also see lots of these dashes. When replaying such a recording the replay isn't smooth at these points. All of my recordings are effected by this. Has anyone a clue what the real problem is? Regards, Joachim. 2009/9/27 Arthur Konovalov <artlov@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi! > I observed that periodically appears lot of dashes in the console running my > vdr-1.7.9. > Probably this comes from this code in transfer.c: > > if (cPlayer::IsAttached()) { > // Transfer Mode means "live tv", so there's no point in doing any > additional > // buffering here. The TS packets *must* get through here! However, every > // now and then there may be conditions where the packet just can't be > // handled when offered the first time, so that's why we try several times: > for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { > if (PlayTs(Data, Length) > 0) > return; > fprintf(stderr, "-");//XXX just for testing - remove when stable > cCondWait::SleepMs(10); > } > esyslog("ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode"); > } > > In syslog sometimes the following can be found: > Sep 27 10:14:07 vdr vdr: [4806] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer > Mode > Sep 27 11:22:02 vdr vdr: [5035] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer > Mode > Sep 27 16:06:19 vdr vdr: [5168] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer > Mode > Sep 27 20:52:02 vdr vdr: [5362] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer > Mode > > What does this mean? Is it TS handling problem in vdr or hardware related? > How bad is it and how to find the cause of this? > Can it be reason why sometimes recordings are corrupted? > > I have 1 FF Nexus DVB-S (primary output device) and 2 DVB-C PCI cards on P4 > HT 2.4GHz PC. > > AK > > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > -- Best Regards, Joachim. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr