[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.1.12

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Lauri Tischler wrote:
> >
> >>Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>- Improved skipping channels that are (currently) not available (thanks to Stefan
> >>>  Huelswitt).
> >>
> >>Oct 6 19:44:44 vdr vdr[392]: ERROR: channel 37 not locked on DVB card 1!
> >>Oct 6 19:44:44 vdr vdr[392]: panic level: 10
> >>Oct 6 19:44:44 vdr vdr[392]: retrying
> >>Oct 6 19:44:47 vdr vdr[392]: ERROR: channel 37 not locked on DVB card 1!
> >>Oct 6 19:44:47 vdr vdr[392]: ERROR: max. panic level exceeded
> >>Oct 6 19:44:47 vdr vdr[392]: initiating emergency exit
> >>
> >>Channel 37 on my list is DW, for some reason it does not show, maybe
> >>the beam does not point to north.
> >>It should not crash. i think  8)
> >
> >
> > I can't see where it would be _crashing_. It's simply initiating an exit
> > to allow a driver reload, since it can't know why that channel doesn't
> > lock.
> 
> Why does it even bother to try, if there is no lock show
> some message, like 'No lock, Bad channel 37' and skip to next
> channel.
> Similar skipping of channels where CA is defined but appropiate
> hardware is not installed could be handy.

The machanisms stems from the problems where recordings didn't work
but a driver reload cured it. With the rearranged data flow handling
in version 1.1.x this now also applies to the transfer mode.

I'll make it optional in both cases.

Klaus
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