[vdr] Re: strange effects in vdr-1.1.20 / recordings cant beviewed

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

Georg Hitsch wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > > I have just updated from vdr 1.0.4 to 1.1.20 and I have the following
> > > effect:
> > >
> > > Recordings (old one, recorded with 1.04, but also new one recorded with
> > > 1.1.20) cant be viewed.
> > >
> > > The recording itself seems to be ok.
> > > The files seems to be ok, too.
> > >
> > > When I play the recording, vdr plays 1 second the (correct) audio - but
> > > the screen stays black.
> > > After hitting play, it does nothing.
> > >
> > > When I jump 1 minute in front and back (a few times), sometimes the
> > > recording can be played - but as soon as i press pause or jump or
> > > something like that - same procedure (jump front and back a few times)
> > >
> > > (It _could_ be, that all recordings are from the RTL group - but I am
> > > not sure about that)
> > >
> > > Does anyone have the same effect?
> >
> > There's already a thread about that on this list.
> >
> > You can use the old firmware (dated April 15, 2002) together with the new
> > driver to replay RTL recordings. Make sure you comment out the lines
> >
> > #define DO_REC_AND_PLAY_ON_PRIMARY_DEVICE 1
> > #define DO_MULTIPLE_RECORDINGS 1
> >
> > in VDR/dvbdevice.c to avoid problems when recording.
> 
> If I do this, my VDR gets very instable :(
> 
> What is exactly the problem with RTL recordings?
> 
> Georg

I wish I knew...

Apparently some time last week RTL must have changed something in their
data format that triggered a bug in the driver/firmware.

I'm afraid we have to wait until the driver developers can come up with
a solution to this...

Klaus
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