[vdr] Re: VDR always recording on primary device ?

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

Tilo Renkl wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> > > just upgraded to 1.2.0pre1. Started a FTA recording and
> > realiced that VDR uses my
> > > primary device to record this one. So VDR always has to do
> > a Transfermode.
> > > Is this by design or is it a bug ?
> > >
> > > I have two DVB cards, both can view every channel in my
> > list. So why does VDR not use
> > > my second card ?
> >
> > Is there a CAM connected to your second card?
> > What's your "Primary limit"? If it is 0, try setting it to 1.
> 
> Primary limit = 1 was the solution. Thanx.
> 
> Btw, In my first recording I got a really strange thing:
> 
> After about seven Minutes of recording, there was a message about
> an error in te stream in my syslog, and after that the rest of that
> recording
> was broken (totally disturbed video and audio) and I got the following
> messages in my syslog:
> 
> May 31 17:30:22 rubin vdr[23814]: ERROR: error in data stream!
> May 31 17:30:22 rubin vdr[22018]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes
> dropped)
> May 31 17:30:24 rubin last message repeated 2955 times
> May 31 17:30:24 rubin vdr[21243]: switching to channel 17
> May 31 17:30:24 rubin vdr[22017]: transfer thread ended (pid=22017)
> May 31 17:30:25 rubin kernel: OutCommand: timeout waiting for COMMAND idle
> May 31 17:30:25 rubin kernel: SOutCommand error
> May 31 17:30:25 rubin kernel: outcom error
> May 31 17:30:26 rubin kernel: OutCommand: timeout waiting for COMMAND idle
> May 31 17:30:26 rubin kernel: SOutCommand error
> May 31 17:30:26 rubin kernel: outcom error
> May 31 17:30:27 rubin kernel: OutCommand: timeout waiting for COMMAND idle
> May 31 17:30:27 rubin kernel: SOutCommand error
> May 31 17:30:27 rubin kernel: outcom error
> 
> and so on ...
> 
> Any hints ?

Looks like a driver problem.
Which driver version are you using?

Klaus
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