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

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

> Hmm... maybe VDR could "have a look" at the signals of *all* cards ?
> Only if *all* signals are missing a driver failure would be the reason
> most likely . And even if not, if *all* signals are missing, restarting
> would not harm anyone. This of course applies only to VDR boxes with
> more than one DVB card built into it. With only one card, restarting
> still isn't the best choice on errorhandling but an acceptable (even the
> slowest possible) one...
Unfortunately not - a driver stuck does not appear on all cards at the same 
time !
I often have this while switchin channels on primary card: Suddenly only black 
picture & no sound on all channels ! The second card (maybe recording at the 
moment) is not affected !

> > 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 !
>
> I don't know, are the drivers still *that* buggy ?
Yes, i think so :-(
I must admit that i'm usinf drivers from early april (if i remember right) - 
but afaik nothing has changed since then - i would be very happy, if it turns 
out that i'm wrong !

Martin