[vdr] Re: How to increase VDR-restarts ?

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Gernot Ritter wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> On my Box I need to record a channel that only sends data 
> half an hour a
> day.
> Unfortunately, the time-window within which data is sent 
> varies form day to
> day for a few minutes (i.e. some day they start earlier and 
> end earlier,
> some day they start later and so on...)
> This causes VDR to restart ( I guess this is because no data is coming
> anymore or not yet ) on the channel marked for recording.
> That fact for itself wouldnīt be the problem - but after 
> restarting for
> several times (I guess about 3 to 5 times) the VDR software 
> doesnīt start
> again and so all forthcoming timer events canīt be recorded 
> without having
> to restart VDR manualy or rebooting the machine.
> 
> Anybody got an idea how to circumvent this Problem ?
> (Maybe there is a possibility of increasing restarts? Or tell 
> VDR to ignore
> no incoming data stream on the channel to record ?)
> 
> Thanks for all helpful comments on this in advance
> 
Hi,

perhaps you should use deamontools to monitor vdr instead of a shell
script.
You can get deamontools at http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html


Cu Ulrich



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