[vdr] Re: black screens...any hint?

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

Gregor Lawatscheck wrote:
> 
> At 14:35 22/05/2003, you wrote:
> >well.... i feel good.... that i am not alone with this problem ;)
> >
> >noe i dont have the autopid patch installed.... and the box was running for
> >severall months without trouble...
> 
> This could be an entirely different problem but we've been looking into
> this quite recently. Turns out some recordings don't get played /
> transfermode won't work and quite possibly live view doesn't work in rare
> circumstances on the av7110 because the video memory allocated in the
> firmware is a little bit too small. Ralph Metzler wrote over on linux-dvb
> he's had success playing back all streams in question with a 230 k buffer
> rather than the current 210 k buffer.
> 
> The fairly stable 0.9.4 firmware is supposed to have had a buffer over 230
> k but I haven't really managed to run a 0.9.4 firmware (Jan 2002) with the
> current driver. Are there certain options in vdr that can be switched off
> to make it work with DVB-s?

What options would that be?

> Hold out guys, I hope we're seeing a new firmware with a bigger vid mem
> soon to fix these kind of problems.

But that will mean that the OSD will have to be considerably smaller!

Klaus
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