[vdr] Re: vdr[3330]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!

[Usenet-372111@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger)  19.09.01 08:47

Once upon a time Klaus Schmidinger shaped the electrons to say...

>Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>>
>> What ist the meaning or cause of/behind:
>>
>> vdr[3330]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>>
>> It occurs sometimes(once in a week)
>>
>> But:
>> Today very often and i have to cold start the PC.
>> The CPU seems to run in an endless loogp (powerconsuption
>> was at maximum possible)
>> The last messages on the screen were
>> "lirc Bufferoverflow" (did not note the exact letters, assuming
>> they would be in log file)
>>
>> The records are unusable.
>> Only the upper half of the screen changes but
>> after a while VDR seems to reset it self.
>>
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: timer 9 start
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: switching to channel 2
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: Title:
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: record /video/..
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: creating directory /video/..
>> 0:00 msi vdr[440]: creating directory
>> 0:01 msi vdr[440]: recording to '/video..
>> 0:01 msi vdr[935]: output thread started (pid=935)
>> 0:01 msi vdr[936]: input thread started (pid=936)
>> 0:14 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>> 0:38 msi last message repeated 5 times
>> 0:42 msi kernel: lirc_serial: AIEEEE: 0 1 3ba71442 3ba713f7 77138
>> b5fc3 0:47 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>> 1:20 msi last message repeated 3 times
>> 1:43 msi last message repeated 2 times
>> 1:49 msi kernel: lirc_serial: AIEEEE: 0 1 3ba71485 3ba71442
>> 2b992771b8 2:00 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>> 2:25 msi last message repeated 2 times
>> 3:06 msi last message repeated 3 times
>> 3:07 msi kernel: lirc_serial: AIEEEE: 0 1 3ba714d3 3ba71485
>> 837e72ba11 3:23 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>> 3:38 msi last message repeated 3 times
>> 3:39 msi kernel: lirc_serial: AIEEEE: 0 1 3ba714f3 3ba714d3
>> e30198386a 3:49 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>> 4:07 msi vdr[935]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1!
>>
>> etc..

>Might be a weak antenna signal?

Thought that too, but "normal watching" ("live") is flawless.

The records have heavy drop outs (maybe because the
driver is trying to write that MPG1-string?)

BTW:
While looking in driver i see that there are several places
where i2c-writes results are not checked...resp. dropped.

Maybe teh errors occurs on a much higher level, and
that is the firsttime, an error message is generated.


>Does this happen on _any_ channel, or just on specific ones?

It happened on _recording_ of

ARD+ZDF+WDR
(but i did not record other channels in the meanwhile)

All records are almost unusable.



>BTW: what's with the "lirc_serial: AIEEEE: ..."??

That's a sporadic(unexpected) interrupt lirc in debug
likes to notice this.
First i thought that might be the cause, but
this messages i got since i am running VDR,
and , on a deeper look, it seems not to be timerelated.
(They just "happend" to be between)

This MPEG-message seems to occure only while recording (AFAIS)
It's new since i upgrade to  0.95 + the dvb-20010914

With 0.94 and the 20010807 i had no such problem.


DVB -> dvb-20010914
VDR -> vdr-0.95
i2c-2.6.1
lm_sensors-2.6.1