[vdr] Re: Big problem with scheduled recording

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

Sebastian Herp wrote:
> 
> @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

You can comment out the two lines

         else
            dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "read incomplete section - seclen = %d, n = %d", seclen, n);

in eit.c to avoid these.

> [...] 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*

It's an erro in the EPG data processing. You should be fine if you just delete
the error message. I'll need to further look into this why this message comes
so often...

> 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?

The latest driver version (2001-11-17) runs fine here with DVB-S.

Klaus
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