[vdr] Re: Big problem with scheduled recording

["Sebastian Herp" <newsletter@scytheman.net>]

@Klaus:
I have one DVB-card in my system and you were right (as always). My
EPGScanTimeout value was 5, so this would explain the channel-switching.
And: I can not tune to those channels manually ... black screen :) some of
them are PW-channels others are from Eutelsat (i have an Astra-only dish and
did not use the channel.conf that was shipped with VDR).

But there is still the problem with those really endless "read incomplete
section"-messages.
Excerpt from my syslog:
------------ schnipp ------------------
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: timer 1 start
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: switching to channel 5
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: Title: 'Star Trek - Der Aufstand' Subtitle:
''
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: record
/video/Star_Trek_-_Der_Aufstand/2001-11-24.20.13.50.50.rec
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: creating directory
/video/Star_Trek_-_Der_Aufstand
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: creating directory
/video/Star_Trek_-_Der_Aufstand/2001-11-24.20.13.50.50.rec
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[460]: recording to
'/video/Star_Trek_-_Der_Aufstand/2001-11-24.20.13.50.50.rec/001.vdr'
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[1164]: output thread started (pid=1164)
Nov 24 20:13:00 milk vdr[1165]: input thread started (pid=1165)
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 126, n
= -1
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 141, n =
51
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 814, n =
389
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 79, n = 11
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1996, n =
65
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 331, n =
118
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1385, n =
210
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
120
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 800, n =
50
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 261, n =
208
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 350, n =
50
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 331, n =
297
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1089, n =
31
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 126, n =
109
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1128, n =
14
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 232, n = 2
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 248, n =
227
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 111, n =
22
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 3366, n =
86
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 410, n =
138
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1280, n =
269
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1312, n =
193
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 106, n =
90
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 2162, n =
87
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 129, n =
50
Nov 24 20:19:43 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 354, n =
76
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 116, n =
55
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 2325, n =
58
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
89
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1385, n =
81
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
107
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 3003, n =
63
Nov 24 20:19:44 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 598, n =
457
[...]
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 889, n =
81
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
74
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1365, n =
198
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
99
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 2665, n =
71
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 459, n =
278
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 610, n =
178
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 494, n =
429
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 71, n = 62
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 15, n = 6
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 133, n = 6
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 527, n =
106
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 872, n =
73
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 485, n =
132
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 1394, n =
526
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 173, n =
137
Nov 24 22:36:02 milk vdr[462]: read incomplete section - seclen = 3003, n =
33
Nov 24 22:40:00 milk vdr[1164]: output thread ended (pid=1164)
Nov 24 22:40:00 milk vdr[1165]: input thread ended (pid=1165)
Nov 24 22:40:00 milk vdr[460]: buffer stats: 278024 (26%) used
Nov 24 22:40:00 milk vdr[460]: timer 1 stop
Nov 24 22:40:00 milk vdr[460]: deleting timer 1
----------------schnipp----------------------

[...] are approximately 8000 "read incomplete section"-messages. What does
that mean? As i said, the record was perfect, but the messages do not sound
good to me *g*


Hmm... it's possible that the color-problem is a driver-problem. A restart
of VDR doesn't help. A "make reload" before starting VDR again changes the
color to the normal ones. Is the newest version of the driver running
without the "failed to set audio pids"-problem?

Greetings,
Sebastian

PS.: deleted the orginal message as it was too long (again)
PPS.: Sorry for including some kilobytes of log-files *g*