[vdr] Re: Switching to channel n

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

Jan Ekholm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen that the recent 1.1.3x versions of VDR quite often seem to get
> stuck in "channel switch loops". I frequently see messages like:
> 
> ... 15:49:23 vdr[4813]: switching to channel 7
> ... 15:49:45 vdr[4813]: switching to channel 7
> ... 15:50:06 vdr[4813]: switching to channel 7
> 
> They come roughly once or twice per minute, often for hours. Usually the
> image is black but the OSD still works ok, so VDR isn't frozen. This has
> happened with several VDR versions, and various DVB drivers from May and
> March, the most recent ones are DVB CVS from today. The card is a full
> featured Hauppauge DVB-c. No custom patches to VDR. The MP3-plugin is
> loaded, as well as a couple custom local plugins (that don't get used at
> all at this point).
> 
> Is this a known issue, not a problem at all, a user error or just bad
> luck? :)

I guess that during these times there is a recording going on on a
different transponder than the one channel 7 is on. This issue has
already been brought up here on the list and the solution will
probably be that VDR switches to the recording channel in that case.

Klaus
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