Am Montag, 16. April 2007 21:57 schrieb Udo Richter:
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Hi,
we're suffering from continuous vdr restarts every few minutes during recording of certain programs, while this is spat into syslog: [...] The signal quality looks fine.
Did you check the signal quality of the second card, or just the first card? The femon plugin allows to manually switch to the second card for receiving.
Ahh, just learned that now, but testing it with a ZDF recording leads to restarts every minute. Checking femon on #2 showed the upper stroke at 65% (slightly in yellow area), the lower at about 82%, but Video/Audio rates were zero.
Funny, I started the recording while femon was active on #2, thus vdr took #1 for the recording, and this succeeded (001.vdr). Stopped femon, stopped and restarted the recording via vdradmin, vdr took #2 for the recording as expected, and the restart loop got going again. Something is definitely wrong with #2.
This is reflected in the recording dir and the log:
Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] switching device 2 to channel 2 Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] timer 29 (2 0035-0230 'Kleines Fernsehspiel Dancefloor Caballeros ') start Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] Title: 'Kleines Fernsehspiel Dancefloor Caballeros' Subtitle: 'TV -Roadmovie D/2006' Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] record /video0/Kleines_Fernsehspiel_Dancefloor_Caballeros/2007-04 -17.00.35.99.99.rec Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video0/Kleines_Fe rnsehspiel_Dancefloor_Caballeros/2007-04-17.00.35.99.99.rec/002.vdr Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19815] recording to '/video0/Kleines_Fernsehspiel_Dancefloor_Caballeros/ 2007-04-17.00.35.99.99.rec/002.vdr' Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19831] file writer thread started (pid=19815, tid=19831) Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19832] recording thread started (pid=19815, tid=19832) Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19833] receiver on device 2 thread started (pid=19815, tid=19833) Apr 17 01:13:03 ziggy vdr: [19834] TS buffer on device 2 thread started (pid=19815, tid=19834) Apr 17 01:13:05 ziggy vdr: [19820] channel 2 (ZDF) event Die 17.04.2007 00:40-02:20 (VPS: 17.04 00:4 0) 'Kleines Fernsehspiel Dancefloor Caballeros' status 4 Apr 17 01:13:05 ziggy vdr: [19820] channel 13 (KiKa) event Mon 16.04.2007 21:00-06:00 (VPS: 16.04 21 :00) 'Sendeschluss' status 4 Apr 17 01:13:19 ziggy vdr: [19825] EPGSearch: search timer update started Apr 17 01:13:20 ziggy vdr: [19825] EPGSearch: search timer update finished Apr 17 01:13:34 ziggy vdr: [19831] ERROR: video data stream broken Apr 17 01:13:34 ziggy vdr: [19831] initiating emergency exit Apr 17 01:13:34 ziggy vdr: [19815] emergency exit requested - shutting down
Does this only happen on Pro7/Sat1/Kabel1? If yes, its most probably DECT telephone interference, in rare cases it may be related to all vertical transmissions. In any case you may want to switch to the new transponder. See http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=60914
Did that, but unfortunately, it wasn't the reason :-(. But thanks for the heads up - didn't notice before.
There may be additional side effects, for example, what channel the first card is tuned to, or whether the first card is tuned at all (recording playback), and others.
Generally, keep an eye on cables and connectors, bad connections are a common source of trouble.
Will check #2 cabling tomorrow. Thanks, Udo.
Pete