Sorry if this is solved with a newer version, but i did not find a hint. (I still run 1.3.18)
if found a very strange and "unnice" behavior of when trying to record
TV6;X-Gate:12610:vC56:S19.2E:22000:100:101=deu:4201:0:12301:1:1112:0
After one hour of recording (in the background!) the TV screen of the running replay(!) becomes black and the remote control does not work any more. A reboot does not help. That's reproducible!
Nearer investitgation shows, that for a few second "ARD" channel is displayed and then the screen becomes black again.
/var/log/syslog fills with
vdr[19538]: info: Channel not available! vdr[19538]: ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD! vdr[19538]: switching to channel 4 vdr[19538]: info: Channel not available!
A cold reboot shows that VDR runs into "panic" and tries to do a restart of itself a few second after it resumes the recording.
55:03 vdr[18461]: non blocking file reader thread started(pid=18461, tid=3375120) 03:01 vdr[12923]: ERROR: video data stream broken 03:01 vdr[12923]: initiating emergency exit 03:02 vdr[1659]: emergency exit requested - shutting down 03:02 vdr[12924]: recording thread ended (pid=12924, tid=3178513) 03:02 vdr[12923]: file writer thread ended (pid=12923,tid=3162126) 03:02 vdr[1659]: cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 2 TS continuity errors 03:02 vdr[1659]: cTS2PES got 1 TS errors, 4 TS continuity errors 03:02 vdr[1659]: buffer stats: 65988 (1%) used 03:02 vdr[1659]: timer 114 (...) stop 03:02 vdr[18461]: non blocking file reader thread ended (pid=18461, tid=3375120) 03:02 vdr[18460]: dvbplayer thread ended (pid=18460,tid=3358733) 03:02 vdr[1659]: saved setup to /video0/setup.conf 03:02 vdr[1663]: tuner on device 1 thread ended (pid=1663, tid=16386) 03:21 vdr[19538]: VDR version 1.3.18 started 03:31 vdr[19538]: no free DVB device to record channel 108!
I assume the channel is alternating between encrypted and not (without signaling it?). VDR missinterprets the encryption as "data stream broken" :-(
I can reproduce the dying vdr simply by starting a recording on that channel. (Remember: EPG data is present!)
Question:
Why is it still required that VDRs reaction is so hard? I remember 4 years back: at that time it was OK, as too many problems existed. But today?
Why can't VDR display a begign on screen message "Videos data stream broken during recording, OK=restart, all other suspends recording for today?" for say 5 minutes (If there were really a "stream broken", it would not matter if restarting now or in 5 minutes! The recording is bad anyway. But would matter a lot if the instant restart would break other recordings)! Or just record the black screen as it was told by the user?
Rainer