[vdr] emergency restart is too fast for my USB DVB-T receiver

Hi All,

I have an usb dvb-t receiver. When something goes wrong, (for instance when I unplug, and then re-plug the receiver) I see in my syslog something along the lines of "video data stream broken" or "error stopping stream". Then vdr restarts itself.

The problem is that the kernel does not reinitialize the receiver until nobody is using the device. reinitialize takes a few seconds, but vdr does not release the device long enough for that to happen. The result is that vdr restarts many times.

When I stop vdr, wait a few seconds, and then start it again, the USB receivers work fine again.

Is there a way to let vdr wait for 10 seconds during the emergency restart?

Best regards, Cedric