[vdr] Re: VDR panic on failure to tune to a channel?

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

Thomas Sailer wrote:
> 
> What is the reason VDR panics when it fails to
> tune to a channel listed in channels.conf?
> 
> This is somewhat annoying for channels that
> are only temporarily "on the air", as one needs
> to manually comment them out in channels.conf
> when they are not on air...
> 
> Tom

I introduced this "panic level" as a way of recovering from problems
where the driver wasn't able to tune to channels any more. When a timer
switches to a channel, and that switching fails, it immediately causes
an emergency exit to allow for a driver reload.

If the user zaps through channels, it makes little sense to do an emergency
exit immediately if a switching fails. However, if it fails over and over
again, at some point it does make sense.

You can set the threshold for this higher by increasing the value of

#define MAXPANICLEVEL 10

in VDR/thread.c.

Klaus
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