[vdr] Re: Errors vdr 1.0.0pre4

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

Joerg Eilers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I updated to vdr 1.0.0pre4 and siemens_dvb-0.9.4-2002-03-16.tgz
> yesterday.
> But my recording in the evening is broken and I miss the last
> 40 Minutes :-( . VDR stopped recording with messages (I forgot
> to take the exact message, so I'm not sure wether it first was
> unknown picture type 5 or 7 ...):
> 
> ERROR: Can't record MPEG1!
> ERROR: Can't record MPEG1!
> ERROR: unknown picture type 5
> ERROR: Can't record MPEG1!
> ERROR: unknown picture type 7
> 
> After that the machine was "frozen" (did't respond to RC
> or keyboard) but the video-signal was still there. I
> wathched while recording so I could watch the end,
> but didn't record it.
> 
> I changed back to vdr 0.98 for a later recording, and it worked
> with the same dvb driver (0.9.4-2002-03-16).
> 
> The system was working for several month now with my old
> vdr 0.98 and a dvb driver version from sept-2001.
> 
> Any clues, what to do?!?

Did you observe any picture or audio distortions while watching the
live broadcast?

Can you send me the original /var/log/message lines from a few minutes
before the errors started until a few minutes after the first error message?

Klaus
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