[vdr] Re: buffer usage: 100%

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

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> 
> Try:
> edit dvbapi.h
> 
> At around line 58 (vdr-1.0.4) there is
> #define VIDEOBUFSIZE  MEGABYTE(1)
> 
> Change it to
> #define VIDEOBUFSIZE  MEGABYTE(10)
> 
> In my case it helped very much - I never had any "buffer usage 100%" 
> restarts any more.
> 
> (take care: the 10 MB will be used for every vdr-thread - so 
> if you have 
> to less memory (less then 128 MB) it can become a problem  - then try 
> videobufsize 5 MB or 2 MB)

But be aware that with the current production release (1.0.x) of vdr the
larger buffer will result in a premature end of replay (8MB is about 1
Minute).
This has been fixed in the 1.1.8


CU,
Christian.
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> Georg
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