[vdr] Re: Two cards, two recordings, bad signal on one = two broken recordings

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 17:22 schrieben Sie:
> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 04:56 schrieben Sie:
> > > Perhaps priorities could be used to decide "don't restart to try to fix
> > > a lower priority recording if a higher priority recording is going
> > > fine".
> >
> > The reason VDR restarts is the unreliable DVB-driver. As it used to crash
> > very often, VDR restarts to reload it. But VDR doesn't know if the driver
> > has crashed or if there's just no reception. We've discussed this with
> > Klaus very often, but he didn't want to change the code.
>
> I guess it wouldn't matter how the code is changed, there would
> always be somebody who has a special case in which everything
> should be done completely different ;-)
>
> So I'd say everybody should change this in whatever way they
> consider best fitting.

Yes, but bad reception shouldn't crash a system.

What about just checking two values?

1.) FE_HAS_LOCK
2.) BER

If there's no FE_HAS_LOCK it might be a crash, but if there's a BER You 
receive something and the driver hasn't crashed.

Rene


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