[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.1.9

[Antti O Lammi <alammi@cc.helsinki.fi>]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Meinrad Sauter wrote:

> > great feature, and it works...
> > ...at least for a few seconds. Then I get
> > GPIO0 irq oops
> > ...
> > many of them and then:
> > dvb0: arm crashed
> >
> > This happens both when trying to timeshift and switching channels when a
> > recording is running.

> For a while I ran my VDR box with kernel 2.4.18 because of problems with
> my MPEG encoder card. However, with that kernel apparently my harddisk
> didn't work with DMA, so the performance was pretty bad. During that time
> I also saw lots of "GPIO0 irq oops". Now I'm back to kernel 2.4.10 and it
> works fine again.
>
> I did see an ARM crash, though, today when I ran a recording and tried to
> switch to a channel that was currently not available because the tranponder
> was locked due to the recording. Haven't further inverstigated that yet...

I get these ARM crashes a lot also. This happens mostly when browsing
menus and recording more than one channels at same time. Also trying to
timeshift while recording two channels leads to a crash sooner or later
(altough I managed to replay one episode of simpsons and record two
channels at same time without a crash. But I'm not being so lucky too
often ;-). Single recording thread and a replay seems to work much better.

Anyway, great work, looks promising!

I actually came up with some improvements (Do you prefer just ideas, or
ready programmed patches? I can also programm some of these, if you
think they are good idea):

* I think there's a need to identify wich recordings can be done
simultaniously with single card. I mean identify by the user visually in
the Timer menu. I could look in to a proper implementation of this, not
too easy UI problem, I know.

* "Once per Week"/"Weekdays"/"Weekend-days" quick selections in timer
programming (Only if lauched from EPG) instead of the
daynumbers/mtwtfss/mtwtf--/-----ss. Maybe also day numbers with SAME
day-of-week could be set (like 8, 15, 22 ...). I think there's point to
change recording to Wednesday, if it's for Monday in EPG. Right?

* Day-of-week visible in timer programming, beside the recording
Day-number. It would be nice to know what day-of-week the proposed
recording is going to happen.

* Day-of-week visible from EPG. In Finland we get EPG 7 days in advance.
When browsing it few days ahead, it becomes unclear which day-of-week is
in question.