[vdr] Re: Buffer Overflows in vdr-1.3.13

[Michal Dobrzynski <michal@appl.com.au>]

I second your observations. As soon as some of my timers were activated 
VDR went nuts. I had to revert to 1.3.12 (thank god I hadn't cleared my 
apt cache) and now all is fine.

Regards,
Michal Dobrzynski

On 19/10/2004, at 3:53 PM, C.Y.M wrote:

> C.Y.M wrote:
> > After having tested vdr-1.3.13 for a while, channel zapping appears 
> > to function properly without any issues.  But, when I set recordings 
> > on timers, this seems to crash VDR after a few recordings with the 
> > following error (takes me no longer than 6-12 hours to crash VDR by 
> > setting a bunch of timers).  The buffer overflow seems to happen 
> > right after the show begins to record so maybe this has to do with 
> > the FE_HAS_LOCK issue.  I have tested this with and without the 
> > dvbdevice patch for vdr-1.3.13 with the same results.  I am using a 
> > Nexus-S. I do not have any of these problems with vdr-1.3.12.
> I would also like to add that this can be reproduced by setting about 
> 5-10 1 minute timers on various channels.  I think this error is 
> caused by the initial buffer overrun when a recording is initiated.  
> This seems to have something to do with the new buffer optimizations.  
> When I watch a timer go off, the buffer immediately fills up (then it 
> goes back down).