What is point to that, that VDR do restart IF there is no stream what it should record.. That affected to all other recordings too because vdr was restarting itself constantly. Not good! Is there "setting" somewhere where you can say that "do not" restart if there is no stream.
This has been discussed before, and the conclusion was that VDR cannot know if DVB-driver/card has failed or transponder. So it restarts itself to reload drivers.
I think easy fix should be that VDR tries to tune the same card to other channel, then to other transponder to see if data is received.
Symptom: cannot record data - recorded channel seems to be dead (no data received, previously VDR restart) - fix1: tune same card to another channel on same transponder - if works tune back - fix2: tune same card to another channel on another transponder - if works try recording again - fix3: restart VDR
So in theory VDR should do ping-pong loop between problem and fix1 (or fix2) the time of the timer. And try to avoid 100% CPU load with busy looping on this. So no restart if card seems to be working -> channel & transponder seams to be down.
Naturally if there is a CAM-module, reset of CAM-module should be taken into equasion. And reset of smart card etc.
Then setting on menu that "abandon timer if channel not available with-in [user defineable minutes] from timer start". This would free the DVB card for other recordings.
Also a logic for fix3. If this card it stuck, but there is another free card to record show, and other recordings on other transponders, do not restart.
How does that sound?
BR, Jori