[vdr] Re: VDR 1.3.15 gets unusable slow after a short time

["C.Y.M" <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>]

post wrote:
> At 18:43 09.11.2004, you wrote:
>
> > > > What could be the problem?
> > > >
> > > > After a restart of vdr everything seems to be normal, but then 
> > > > suddently
> > > > that behaviour kicks in without further notice. All the rest on that
> > > > machine is running normally, I also have xorg-x11 + kde 3.3.1 
> > > > installed,
> > > > and actually I am watching the live-signal on my monitor using kvdr.
> >
> > Perhaps it is the default EPG scanner timeout in VDR.
> >
> > EPGScanTimeout = 0
>
> This option was set to 5 by default. I just set it to zero and restarted 
> vdr, now I am curious if that solved the problem.
>
> Can you explain, what this EPGScanTimeout option is doing exactly?
The EPGScanTimeout will cause the screen to go black while it scans for 
EPG (if you only have one card).

Another trick is to set the frontend driver to not goto sleep.  If you 
are using modules and have a ttpci based chipset, then put this in your 
alias'

alias /dev/dvb/* /dev/dvb
alias char-major-212 dvb-ttpci
options dvb-core dvb_shutdown_timeout=0

Or, if you compile the drivers directly into the kernel then edit the 
drivers:

--- dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c.old 
2004-05-03 09:29:27.000000000 -0700
+++ dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 
2004-05-04 01:58:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #include "dvbdev.h"

 static int dvb_frontend_debug;
-static int dvb_shutdown_timeout = 5;
+static int dvb_shutdown_timeout = 0;
 static int dvb_override_frequency_bending;
 static int dvb_force_auto_inversion;
 static int dvb_override_tune_delay;