[vdr] Re: Necessity of Emergency Exits...

[ma.hoff@t-online.de (Martin Hoffmann)]

> Is it *really* necessary to shutdown the *whole* vdr just because the video
> stream of *one* recording is broken for a second or two ?
> Wouldn't it be *much* better to "record" just a black picture or whatever
> until the signal is back ?
Of course you are right if it comes to lack of signal because of external 
influence (e.g. weather) - then Sit_and_Wait should be the best way to deal 
with this !
However, afaik the emergency exit was created because (more or less *) often 
the DVB driver gets stuck and delivers no video signal ! The only thing that 
helps is reloading the driver - that's why vdr exits, undloads drivers, loads 
drivers and restarts itself !
So, how should VDR distinguish between both cases ?

Best would be, if on one hand the drivers never get stuck and on the other 
hand the drivers could be loaded seperately for each card at runtime of VDR ! 
But i do not know if any of these is technically possible !

Martin

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* depends on Revision of DVBs card ! My 2.1 crashes quite often - never had 
this with my old 1.3 !