2018-01-21 15:46 GMT+02:00 Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de:
As long as a cPlayer (or a cReceiver, for that matter) is attached to a cDevice, VDR will not perform its housekeeping tasks. This is to avoid any problems during replay or recording, possibly caused by heavy disk access.
Ah, I see.. I think softhddevice uses the dummy player to receive keypresses, so it can exit from suspend on demand.
But the full check in vdr.c is this:
if ((Now - LastInteract) > ACTIVITYTIMEOUT && !cRecordControls::Active() && !RecordingsHandler.Active() && !Interface->HasSVDRPConnection() && (Now - cRemote::LastActivity()) > ACTIVITYTIMEOUT) { <start housekeeping>
So, there is a separate check for active recordings, and user activity (cRemote)..
I think I just remove the LastInteract check. I think it is not really useful on my current system anyway. I have a commercial detector running after each recording, and it will run no matter what.. There could be another active recording going, or playback or whatever. VDR housekeeping is a much lighter process.
And currently the check works pretty much the wrong way around.. :) If softhddevice is suspended and vdr left "idle", it will never enter housekeeping because of the check.