On 01 Feb 2007 Reinhard Nissl rnissl@gmx.de wrote:
Heikki Manninen wrote:
I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr 1.4.4 after fourth recording starts vdr becomes sluggish and there starts to come errors on log: dvb-ttpci: warning: timeout waiting in LoadBitmap when pushing menu button. And ofcourse no menu appears or menu appears only partly.
Exactly the same thing here and with the latest and the second latest firmware. My FF 2.1 TT card starts to die after third simultaneous recording. But then again, I think that budget cards are much better in this area.
Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same time.
I don't think that the problem is related to anything on VDR side.
AFAIK the bandwidth from ARM to PCI bus is very limited on full-featured cards. With 3 recordings being transfered to VDR there is simply not enough bandwidth left for the OSD transfers. Hence the LoadBitmap timeout.
I experience the problem since VDR introduced concurrent recordings and I cannot believe that there is any VDR / firmware combination which doesn't show this behaviour as it's IMO a hardware limitation.
Budget cards doesn't have this limitation, they can transfer the full transponder without problems.
Regards.