Hi,
tony wrote:
The one single problem: at unpredictable moments, VDR-Xine keeps giving the NO SIGNAL message after a channel switch. VDR keeps responding to the remote, reporting channel swithes and menus, but neither video nor audio is displayed anymore (replaying recordings works). A restart of the /etc/init.d/vdr script solves the problem. It seems impossible to predict when it will happens. Fast zapping or slow zapping doesn't seem to trigger the problem.
Is this a timeout problem or the like? And if so how to solve it? Is it the driver or vdr? Anyone clues?
It is the card losing interrupts but this was fixed after 2.6.11 kernel on my machine. I am running FC4 kernels now.
It is a xine problem because VDR will still record in this state. Now I have xine showing NO SIGNAL after long periods of inactivity because SetPlayMode: switched to 0. Just zapping to a channel wakes xine.
But this is a different problem. Looks like VDR does an EPG scan.
Just have a look into your syslog for a line like this (in english):
Nov 14 00:06:31 video vdr[31630]: info: Beginne mit EPG-Scan
You may also set EPG timeout to 0 to disable automatic EPG scans. You'll see a similar behaviour if you start an EPG scan manually.
Bye.