Help: VDR recording feature failed due to buffer overflow

["Ralph Metzler <" <rjkm@netcologne.de>]

Mace Gael writes:
 > I succeeded also in setting up in order to receive and display the services
 > of the ZDF Vision transponder. Everything works except the recording feature
 > which failed due to a buffer overflow:
 > 
 > 	Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: record
 > /video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec
 > 	Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: creating directory
 > /video/@3sat
 > 	Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[841]: creating directory
 > /video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec
 > 	Sep 19 10:38:48 wnt-umbriel vdr[911]: start recording process
 > (pid=911)
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:08 wnt-umbriel vdr[911]: recording to
 > '/video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec/001.vdr'
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full 
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 10 times
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow 
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full 
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 6 times
 > 	Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow 
 > 
 > Could someone tell me what's happened and what I shall do in order to avoid
 > this problem?


Starting with verison 0.7 we are using program streams as the default
output format. VDR still expects the old AV_PES format and cannot handle 
a PS yet. I guess this is causing your problems.
You will have to insmod dvb.o with the option "outstream=0".


Ralph