[vdr] Re: EPG scanning not working correctly

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

Juri Haberland wrote:
> 
> vdr@continuity.cjb.net wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > [Vanilla vdr-1.1.32, linux-dvb.2003-05-10, FTA only (no CI), one Galaxis
> > DVB-s card]
> >
> > It often happens that as soon as the EPG scan timeout triggers, VDR does
> > not switch channels but continues to switch to the same channel:
> >
> > May 21 00:12:46 bb vdr[1057]: switching to channel 27
> > May 21 00:14:12 bb last message repeated 3 times
> > May 21 00:14:55 bb last message repeated 2 times
> > May 21 00:15:58 bb last message repeated 2 times
> > May 21 00:17:02 bb last message repeated 2 times
> > May 21 00:18:07 bb last message repeated 3 times
> 
> I'm seeing exact the same thing.
> 
> Klaus?

That's caused by the way VDR tries to keep the live channel active.
I'll fix it over the weekend.
As a quick fix you can disable the code below the line

 // Make sure we have a visible programme in case device usage has changed:

in vdr.c.

Klaus
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