[vdr] Re: Try to fix "unknown picture error"

[Martin Holst <holstm@gmx.de>]

Jörg Knitter wrote:
> I have only one DVB card installed, so I have to set the EPG time out to
> get
> a proper program list in VDR and VDRadmin.
> Last week, someone asked if turning off EPG scan does help, and most
> people
> (including me) said that EPG scan does not influence the "upt"-bug. 

As far as I can see, the EPC-Scan provoked the "video data stream broken
on device x"-error and so it causes a restart of vdr at the beginning of
a recording on the secondary device. But I agree, this only prevents from
the "upt"-bug, because vdr makes a restart (even in vanilla vdr)

> But, today I got two damaged recordings because of upt, the first one on
> "Das Erste", the second one one hour later on "RTL2" which is clear as if
> the
> upt bug appears, only a restart seems to help. I thought that this upt bug
> never happens when I already switch to the channel recorded later by the
> timer. I

I don't have that experiences.

> did so last week without problems and I did so today. So, IMHO there can
> only be two reasons:
> 1) EPG scan switches to all channels/transponders (?) to get the EPG data.
> Maybe this channel switching caused the damaged recordings because as I
> mentioned earlier, I also randomly get this upt message when zapping.
> 2) This is the second recording from "Das Erste" that I lost within the
> last
> weeks, while "24" from RTL2 and recordings from other channels worked in
> the
> last weeks without any problems. So, what is the difference between "Das
> Erste" and the other channels? Does this influence the upt bug?

In my case the recording channel don't influence the bug. I have the upt-bug
on all channels and sometimes - if two recordings are successive on the same
channel- I got this bug in the second recording and not in the first (and
sometimes
vice versa or in both).

But I found out that the version of the DVB-driver influence that bug. With
DVB from 27.4.03 I got the upt-bug with all vdr-versions and with DVB from
12.06.03 the versions until 1.1.27 works fine. At the moment I test 1.1.28
with the mentioned driver. So that could be an explanation why this error
occurs different on different system. So maybe the people with this error
could also do some tests with DVB from 12.06.03 and vdr 1.1.2x to ses, 
if they have the same behavior.

Martin

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