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[vdr] Re: screen blanks on record start/stop
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:48:46PM +0200, Jouni Karvo wrote:
>
> (I cut some pieces off from the quote.)
>
> Dr. Werner Fink writes:
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:45:39PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> > > >
> > > >why does the screen blank when a timer starts or stops?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Normally this should only happen when a recording is started
> > > on the primary device, because then the live signal is put
> > > into "Transfer Mode", which results in a short blackout.
> > >
> >
> > IMHO it has nothing todo with the LNB_sharing patch.
> > It happens IMHO on all 2MB SDRAM FF cards if a replay or
> > transfer is already running an other recording is started.
> > If you start the recording _before_ replay something
> > or switching into transfer mode no screen blank happens.
>
> When using budget + xine, there are large buffers, so the blank can
> last even 1,5s.
>
> Could it be possible to arrange it so that this preparation which
> results in screen blanking is done whenever replay/transfer mode is
> started so that it is not needed when the recording starts?
Hmmm ... I'm talking about a FF DVB card ... the VDR timer starts
a recording on the _same_ card which is used for transfer mode
of the VDR or for replaying a recording.
Werner
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