[vdr] Re: video-dropouts and sync-lost

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

Axel Gruber wrote:
> 
> hi all
> 
> since some days i have sometimes problems when reording on ARD and some other
> channels i have totaly AV/sync lost and videodropouts
> 
> i have serached the log and find this part in log:
> 
> Jan 13 22:19:04 tvserver vdr[11183]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,585): DVB driver buffer overflow
> Jan 13 22:20:00 tvserver /USR/SBIN/CRON[11249]: (root) CMD ( /dvdsoft/script/cronauto)
> Jan 13 22:21:00 tvserver /USR/SBIN/CRON[11255]: (root) CMD ( /dvdsoft/script/cronauto)
> Jan 13 22:22:00 tvserver /USR/SBIN/CRON[11260]: (roht) CMD ( /dvdsoft/script/cronauto)
                                                     !
                                                     !this is odd...
                                           
> Jan 13 22:23:00 tvserver /USR/SBIN/CRON[11266]: (rooont) CMD ( /dvdsoft/script/cronauto)
                                                     !
                                                     !hey, what's going on there?
                                                     !are you sure there's nothing more
                                                     !serious going wrong on your machine??

> Jan 13 22:23:44 tvserver vdr[11183]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,585): DVB driver buffer overflow
> Jan 13 22:23:44 tvserver vdr[11182]: ERROR: skipped 332 byte to sync on TS packet
> 
> I think this could happen, when the cpu load was too high for a short moment.
> 
> I think VDR should restart itselve by using the RUNVDR script. if this
> happen. Because this recording will fail and is lost.

Why should VDR restart? It has already resync'ed by skipping 332 byte in the
input stream. It won't improve by a restart, as long as data is still coming in.

Klaus
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