Re: [vdr] preventing vdr from using a device to record

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:36 AM, syrius.ml@no-log.org wrote:

vdr-sxfe output complains it can't demultiplex the stream, but that won't work when I'm away and nobody's watching tv. That won't prevent vdr from using the bad card.

If the vdr-sxfe log gives you useful text for this, why can't you simply write a script that runs in the background and checks for such text every X seconds. If the text is found, it can do whatever you normally do to fix the problem.

I do something similar to detect xine crashes and it works fine. Although my preference would be the "buffer usage: 100%" crash would be fixed once and for all. ;) But that's another issue..