[vdr] Re: Observations on vdr 1.1.15

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

Oliver Endriss wrote:
> 
> Richard Scobie wrote:
> > I have just installed vdr 1.1.15 and DVB 20021101 on a P1-233 which
> > has been running 1.0.4 without trouble. DMA on the disk works fine.
> >
> > When I start recording, the viewed picture and recording (on
> > subsequent replay) suffer very bad breakup, with CPU usage at 100% a
> > significant amount of time.
> >
> > If, while still recording I switch to another channel on the same
> > frequency, everything settles down, with the viewed picture perfect
> > and CPU usage drops to about the same level (about 25-30%) as when
> > recording on 1.0.4 (although the recording is still corrupted).
> > Switching back to the channel being recorded and things fall apart
> > again.
> >
> > Are there any tests I can do to help, bearing in mind I have limited
> > programming/debugging skills?
> 
> This is a known problem which I reported some time ago (P-233, too).
> I started looking into that issue but I still have not found what's
> going on...
> 
> As a workaround, you might disable
> #define DO_REC_AND_PLAY_ON_PRIMARY_DEVICE 1
> in dvbdevice.c.
> 
> (Of course, you will lose the "time-shifting with one card" feature.)

I am also observing an unusually high load when doing Transfer Mode from
my MPEG2 encoder card to the primary DVB-S card (like 15-20%). Haven't yet
found out, though, what causes this...

Klaus
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