[vdr] Re: vdr died just after start

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

Stefan Lucke wrote:
> 
> On Friday 02 May 2003 12:20, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Stefan Lucke wrote:
> > > On Friday 02 May 2003 11:30, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > > Stefan Lucke wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > could someone please explain what went wrong?
> > >
> > > [ .. ]
> > >
> > > > > 20:13:00 farpoint vdr[734]: recording thread started (pid=734) Mai  1
> > > > > 20:13:00 farpoint vdr[735]: receiver thread started on device 1
> > > > > (pid=735) Mai  1 20:13:31 farpoint vdr[735]: ERROR: video data stream
> > > > > broken on device 1
> > > >
> > > > Fr some reason there was no data delivered from the DVB card.
> > > > This is what the "emergency exit" is for - it reloads the driver
> > > > and restarts VDR.
> > > >
> > > > Did the recording work after the restart?
> > >
> > > No. vdr was started via command line (my fault) and not via inittab.
> > >   ./vdr -d -v /data/video/ -Pstreamdev
> > > Today I restarted vdr without reloading DVB driver and it looks well.
> > > There is some strange behaviour with EPG data too. After deletion of
> > > "epg.data" there was no program info available for hours (epg.data size
> > > less than 1000 bytes). Programm info appeared just after a timer
> > > recording started.
> >
> > Maybe there was no transpoder tuned to in the beginning?
> > What happens if you manually change the channel? Do you get EPG data
> > from that transponder then?
> No. I tried it again (stop vdr;rm epg.data;start vdr [on my server]
> start vdr on client site with:
>  ./vdr -Pdxr3 -Pstreamdev  -c /net_data/vdr_bodega1/ -v /net_data/video/
> did several channel switches but there is no program info up to now.

Well, on my system if I delete epg.data and start VDR I get EPG data
right away. Are you referring to the data "inside" the program (which
can be seen on the OSD) or are you waiting for the epg.data file to be written?
That file is written only every 10 minutes.

Klaus
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