[linux-dvb] Re: DVB error messages

[Armin Schindler <mac@melware.de>]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Emil Naepflein wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2001 15:41:03 +0200 (MEST), Armin Schindler
> <mac@melware.de> wrote:
>
> > The card and VDR seems to work okay after all, except that
> > sometimes the OSD-Menu of VDR has wrong colors.
> >
> > Can someone explain what is happening and what could be a
> > solution ?
>
> The firmware of the DVB card is crashing sometimes and VDR normally
> recovers from that. The color change of the OSD can be prevented by
> disabling the EPG scanner. I run now since about two weeks without any
> OSD problem since I disabled the EPG scanner. If I look at the code it
> looks like the scanning process changes the channels very fast without
> any delay. This my cause this problem here.
> There is not much loss because when you change channels the EPG from
> this transponder is read in anyway.

Thanx for hint, I will test it.

On a short look at the sources, it seems to me the epg file is
only written, but never read, so this file is only for other
tools use, right ?

What do you mean with "changing the channels very fast" ? When
I have a look at the Video output at the time the thread is
doing EPG, the channels seem to be switching about every 5 seconds.

Armin


> There is nothing additional what can be done. We have to wait until the
> new version is stable to see whether this problems can be fixed there.
>
> Emil



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