Hello,
I want to report a problem with VDR when a recording is tried while no signal is available.
Last week a small local "blizzard" covered my dish with snow so I lost the sat signal.
When VDR started a recording in this situation, its response to the RC became extremely sluggish with several seconds delay between a RC key press and the reaction. Whe the "recording" finally terminated, the response times became normal again. The sat signal was still unavailable.
The CPU load stayed low (nearly 0) in this situation, and no RC keys got lost.
This happened with VDR 1.3.39 with jummplay patch applied, Kernel 2.6.15 and v4l-dvb CVS drivers from 3.1.2006. I did not try a vanilla VDR but can do this if required.
I have attached a syslog excerpt.
Wolfgang
Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:02 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:08 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:12 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953