[vdr] Re: DVB-T based systems - does anyone have one that reallyis usable ?

[John Grant <john.grant@savcredit.co.uk>]

Juri Haberland wrote:

> John Grant wrote:
>  
> > At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest -  I am at my wit's end 
> > trying to get something reliably useful out of vdr
> > with DVB-T card(s).
> >
> > I have mentioned before the change channel a few times and then the 
> > screen goes blank problem, but I also
> > have the "one minute you're watching TV, the next a recording starts, so 
> > vdr restarts... then again and again".
> > I bought a new PC; put my DVB-T and Nova cards physically as far apart 
> > as possible (three slots between);
> > ran separate aerial cables from separate sockets on the distribution 
> > amplifier to each card; currently running 1.1.28
> > with the driver of that day; umm, everything I can think of. But still I 
> > have the black screen issue and the
> > problem with recordings starting.
> >
> > SO, DOES ANYONE HAVE A DVB-T SETUP THAT REALLY DOES WORK RELIABLY ? If 
> > so, how ?
> >    
> Well, actually not, but:
>
> I only have one fullfeatured DVB-T card and I'm experiencing occasionally
> the black-screen-problem, especially after VDR did its EPG scan. This
> annoying but I've get used to it.
>
> I _don't_ have any problems with doing recordings.
>
>  
Well this is something I hadn't thought of. When vdr goes into its 
restart loop (when recording and watching), it does run for about a
minute before disaster happens. Could it be EPG scan ? Since I live in 
the UK and the EPG is, umm, next to useless, I was going to try
the xmltv thing (if I could ever get the dependencies sorted out) and if 
I do this I can EPG scan altogether, right ?

So perhaps my next experiment is to kill, or at least slow right down 
EPG scan ?

John



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