[vdr] Re: vdr crashes "buffer 100" or "Data stream broken"

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

Andreas Portz wrote:
> 
> /me wrote:
> 
> > Pentium 233MMX, 224 MB, 120 GB
> > 2x Siemens DVB-S 1.3
> > vdr: 1.0.4 no patches etc.
> > DVB: 0.9.4
> > Suse 8.0
> >
> > Recording one program works fine. Event cutting or a little bit time
> > shift. As far as I start 2 concurrent recordings, vdr crashes with the
> > well known "buffer 76% .. buffer 77% .. buffer 100%". Somewhere I got
> > the tip to increase VIDEOBUFFSIZE in dvbapi.c from 1 to 10 MB. That
> > keeps the vdr alive for about 45 sec. With 25 MB, it runs some minutes
> > and dies in most cases without any warning with a "video data stream
> > broken". Sometimes it counts it's buffer up to 80 or 82% an keeps
> > working a few minutes longer. With 40(!!!!!!!!!) MB buffer, it seems to
> > run stable if I don't do anything else. Even the cronjob for the
> > master-timer scan or kvdr crashes the vdr after some seconds or minutes
> > with the " ... broken".
> 
> Now I tried the same without X and KDE in runlevel 3 text mode only and without the
> DSL-Gateway.
> I have 40MB buffer an two recordings running:
> In the time frame 2-10 min after starting vdr I get something similar to:
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> Received stuffing section in EIT
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> Received stuffing section in EIT
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> Received stuffing section in EIT
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> last message tried 3 times
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> last message tried 4 times
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> last message tried 8 times
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> last message tried 2 times
> Received stuffing section in EIT
> last message tried 16 times
> 
> ERROR: video data stream broken

Maybe your box is too slow for two concurrent recordings?
What does 'top' say? Are there any other tasks running with high CPU
usage?

Klaus
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