[vdr] Re: Ring Buffer Overflow while recording

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>Martin Elsner wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> My linux specialist just installed the latest version of vdr (1.2.2) on
>> my machine with all up-to-date drivers.
>>
>> Watching programs is possible without any notable problems, but as soon
>> as a recording starts, linux post a "ring buffer overflow". Even
>> watching the programs just being recorded is not possible without
>> distortions.
>>
>> The signal quality is something around 85% (i got the ODSoft Windows
>> application on another Harddrive running, which showed me that result
>> for the quality).
>>
>> Does it realy have to be 100% Signal Quality for recording???? Or any
>> other hints???? My DECT Phone is switched off ;-)
>
>Do you have DMA turned on for your harddisk?

I had a lot of problems with almost daily ring buffer overflows with most
recent VDR/DVB versions. 1.2.2 together with the recommended DVB drivers
however seem to have cured that problem fully for me, VDR has been working
flawlessly for two weeks while doing over 50 recordings. Before this I
used to restart VDR daily after the overflows.

This time I won't go messing with our nicely working VDR. :)

--
  Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the
  North Pole.
                           -- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens


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