[vdr] Re: Loss of Vision -Sound

[Richard Scobie <r.scobie@clear.net.nz>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Richard Scobie wrote:
> 
>>My channel list contains a number of frequencies used for itinerant
>>feeds, so there is often no signal there when I zap through them.
>>
>>Under 1.0.4, the channel switching time was the same switching between
>>active channels or vacant ones. With 1.1.15 switching back from a vacant
>>channel to an active one takes a number of seconds and in all cases when
>>  it does, the OSD channel indication with current and next events
>>appears, but the screen remains blank. Switching to other active
>>channels does not change this and VDR (not the driver) has to be
>>restarted to get a signal back.
>>
>>Anything I can do to help?
>>
>>DVBs 2.1, 1.1.15 and 2002-11-01 all vanilla.
>>Nov 13 19:58:01 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 2

> 
> Are there any useful messages in the log file when that happens?
> 
> Klaus
> 

Thanks Klaus,

In the attached log section, channel 4,5 and 6 have no signal present.

Nov 13 19:58:01 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 2
Nov 13 19:58:56 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 4
Nov 13 19:59:01 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:01 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:04 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:04 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:07 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 4 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:07 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:12 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 5
Nov 13 19:59:15 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:15 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:18 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:18 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:22 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 5 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:22 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:23 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 6
Nov 13 19:59:26 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:26 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:29 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:29 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:32 tx vdr[2375]: ERROR: channel 6 not locked on DVB card 1!
Nov 13 19:59:32 tx vdr[2375]: retrying
Nov 13 19:59:34 tx vdr[2375]: switching to channel 1
Nov 13 20:00:25 tx vdr[2375]: caught signal 15

The last line is where I did a "killall vdr", as no picture had returned 
when switching back to channel 1 - a active channel.

Regards,

Richard





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