[vdr] Re: Fw: [fmII] Project comment added

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

Johannes Feigl wrote:
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> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> some comment from freshmeat:
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> To: "Johannes Feigl" <johannes.feigl@mcse.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:06 PM
> Subject: [fmII] Project comment added
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> > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> > Hi Johannes Feigl,
> >
> > Sabine Miehlbradt just added a comment to your project
> > Video Disk Recorder. Here's what s/he wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Bug: VDR hops channels after running for several hours
> > Date: 2002-03-26 11:06:46
> > Body:
> >
> > We are using a slightly modified (streaming) 0.99 version of
> > VDR and have noticed that when it runs for a long time
> > (between 8 and 36 hours) VDR starts to hop channels by itself,
> > randomly changing channels every 4-15 seconds.
> > After restarting VDR this behaviour stops. Putting in a manual
> > chan does squat.
> >
> > I'm reasonably sure this is no fault of my modifications. I'm
> > rather supecting the OSD code or the function that records
> > keypresses on the shell from where VDR is started.
> >
> > We have not been able to find any pattern in the hopping and
> > we are sure nobody is pulling our leg by issuing telnet commands.
> >
> > Has this happend to anyone else?

That's the EPG scanner starting after 5 hours of user inactivity.
Set the Setup parameter "EPG scan timeout" to 0 to turn this off.

Klaus
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