[linux-dvb] Re: VDR deletes recording ?!?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Thomas Jagoditsch wrote:
> 
> hi all.
> 
> my vdr (68) writes "deleting recording ..." to the syslog, but only
> renames the dir from "*.rec" to "*.del".
> anybody got a hint ?

This is done to keep the response to the menu command instantaneous
(and also to give you a chance of restoring a recording that was 
deleted inadvertently - which has already happened to me once ;-)

The actual files are removed once VDR actually needs the disk space
for an ongoing recording. Of course you can remove all directories
named '*.del' yourself, too.

> ps: carstens idea to rewrite the firmware on outcommand errors sounds
> good to me. the errors seem not to be related to the osd, last times
> vdr crashes always in the night with no aimed remote in sight.

Version 0.68 of VDR scans the channels to collect EPG data.
Apparently the driver/firmware still has a problem when the channels
are switched frequently. To avoid the crashes you can comment out
lines 309 and 310 in 'vdr.c' (which disables the EPG scanning).

Klaus
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