[vdr] Re: EPG and watchdog

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

Joerg Pulz wrote:
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> hi,
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> yesterday i tried to record from a channel without EPG.
> of course of my very bad signal and still upcoming "outcommand errors" i
> have a watchdog timeout of 4! seconds.
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> VDR started the recording and after 4 seconds the watchdog timer expires
> and the runvdr-script restarts VDR. after the VDR comes up, it gets
> restarted again after 4 seconds.
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> after a look in the log-file i saw that VDR is waiting for EPG data..
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> i tried to set "Use episode name" to no, but nothing changes..
> next step was to completely disable the watchdog. after that, a could
> record channels without EPG. in the log-file i saw, that the complete wait
> for EPG data took 11 seconds.
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> is this normal behavior?
> i think "no EPG data" shouldn't let the watchdog timer expire.
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> any hints or thoughts??

A watchdog timout of 4 seconds is IMHO way too short.

I will, though, reduce the time to wait for EPG data when starting a recording
to 3 seconds, because this would also delay too long when doing a "pause live
video".

Klaus
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