[vdr] Re: Idea to prevent VDR-crashes in case of bad reception (e.g. bad weather)

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Saturday, 30. August 2003 15:53, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while taking a shower ten minutes ago I've had an idea.
>
> VDR doesn't matter if the reception is bad - it just writes to disk even
> if there is no data received.
>
> What really crashes is the MPEG-decoder (ARM, EM8300, ...).
>
> So a simple MPEG-validation checker in cPlayer which stops playback and
> displays an error-message in case the error-rate reaches a defined value
> would prevent VDR from crashing.

Mmm, it's worse than that. The ARM seems to crash even if it get's fed no 
data at all - so we would have to feed it with a test-pattern IMHO.


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