Hi!
So to sum up all the eMails - and thanks to the group of people, who are contributing.
Emergency Exit _is_ needed in case you have: a FullFeatured and/or CAM system
I personally never had problems with EPG search, grep-ed through my logs, but no "unknown picture type" or "video datastream broken" ever occoured. I use xine, in preparation of DVB-S2 h.264.
So my wish is: can I have a knob to disable the emergency exit feature?
Maybe Tero's can give us more input of his error handling script. This sounds a more reasonable way of handling exceptions.
Thanks a lot to all, Martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Im Auftrag von Tero Siironen Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2007 14:09 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: Re: [vdr] VDR stops replay due to strong wind condition
In my case driver/firmware problems does cause some problems with FF cards every now and then (usually black screen after boot), but instead of restarting vdr from itself by watchdog, I've made an error monitor script, that monitors syslog, restarts vdr and reloads drivers when error is seen there. ....
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Im Auftrag von Andreas Mair Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2007 09:45 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: Re: [vdr] VDR stops replay due to strong wind condition
Hi!
On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:45, Heikki Manninen wrote:
On su, 2007-03-18 at 15:46 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
You can disable all the cThread::EmergencyExit() calls if you don't want this. Maybe I should disable this by default in a future version - and wait until people start complaining because recordings are broken... ;-)
I personally don't believe/experience that driver problems cause broken recordings nowadays or have been causing them in the past year or two.
I don't know who's fault it is but I would have broken recordings if there would be no emergency exit. It doesn't happen often, but most of the time (or always?) I get "unknown picture type" or "video datastream broken" errors if following conditions are met: - EPG scan ON - VDR runs some time before recording starts. E.g. when replaying a recording and an EPG scan has been performed before starting recording.
I never have that problem if EPG scan is off. My VDR box has to FF DVB-s cards and it happened with different VDR (atm 1.4.6), kernel (atm 2.6.18.6), dvb driver (atm Friday's "refactoring" repository) and firmware (atm F12623) releases.
So emergency exit is needed on my box, but I would prefer to have the cause for UPT and VDSB fixed ;)
Regards, Andreas