[vdr] Re: Feedback - Race Condition

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

Wolfgang Goeller wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Just wanted to inform you of a race-condition.
> I stopped vdr this morning to make a little test.
> I restarted it at the moment, when two recordings where due
> One unencrypted - the other encrypted.
> 
> Directly after I started vdr I saw in my messages-file:
> Both recordings started - but the encrypted channel got no
> valid data and vdr exited.
> 
> IMHO there are two workarounds (might be not excluding each other)
> 
> - When starting a recording from one card insert a delay of some
>    seconds befor starting the next recording (at least if it's
>    from an encrypted channel.
> 
> - I'm not sure if this would bring any improvement: A somewhat
>    higher timeout for valid data.

Are you sure that the problem is caused by two recordings being started
at the same time? Would the recording from the encrypted channel have
failed, anyway - even without the other recording?

Klaus
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