[vdr] Re: Can't record Sat.1

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel@mpex.net>]

At 22:26 21/05/2003, you wrote:
> I don't know yet what triggers the problem,
...the bitrate of the stream at the time ;)?

>  but when it happend last (I
> think around midnight of 18/19 may) I managed again to make things work by
> doing the following:
>
> The bad channel in that case was Pro7. I switched to RTL and started to
> record it. I then switched to WDR3 and started to record it. After that, I
> switched again to Pro7 and the problem was gone. Stopping the still running
> recording on WDR3 didn't harm then. As all this has absolutely no influence
> on my DECT phone and this "starting two recordings and stopping them again"
> procedure fixed the problem at least three times now, I don't think it is
> DECT related.
Yes, starting and stopping or replaying recordings seems to send some kind 
of reset to the av7110 which usually makes it more likely for stuff to work :).

> When I saw the problem for the first time, I couldn't see Pro7 at all (black
> screen) and VDR did not record anything! What confuses me is that the tech
> patch showed bit errors when the problem happened.
Well that is indeed strange but then I don't know how the tech patch works. 
Maybe if it doesn't see any new data in the ringbuffer it's like "bad 
reception". I would personally only rely on values dvbtune -m outputs. 
Other than that this looks like the "blank screen" issue. You might want to 
read the other thread about it. 


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