Occasionally my signal drops out (haven't looked into it yet), and it causes VDR to completely freeze and become defunct/zombie. That locks up the drivers and the only way to resolve it is by rebooting. No core file gets created. Does anyone know how to prevent the lock-up in the first place? Could it be some kind of leak from the looping (see log clip below)? Here's a clip of the log when it happens. You can see how the log gets filled with the same repeating lines until it crashes. 2016.Oct.28|12:08:55 video: slow down video, duping frame 2016.Oct.28|12:08:55 video: decoder buffer empty, duping frame (5656/167423) 7 v-buf 2016.Oct.28|12:09:29 video: slow down video, duping frame 2016.Oct.28|12:16:09 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:09 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:09 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:09 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:09 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:10 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:11 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:12 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: using device 'default' 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 audio/alsa: start delay 336ms 2016.Oct.28|12:16:13 [1297] [softhddev]Clear: _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr