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

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

John Grant wrote:
> Juri Haberland wrote:

>> 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 ?

The EPG scan is normally done after five hours of inactivity, so I doubt
disabling it will help you with your restart loop.
I don't recall your previous mails, but have you talked with Klaus
Schmidinger about the restart problem?

The black picture problem though is due to a driver problem - AFAIK.

Cheers,
Juri



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