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

[Karsten Mueller <kmu@ratio.de>]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
>>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 !
> 

Ok, so maybe it would then be better to wait until all other recordings
are finished before restarting VDR. Maybe this option could be 
configurable... I'd prefer it to be that way *very* much...


>>>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 :-(

This sucks ;)

> 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
> 



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