loescher@gmx.de(Stephan Loescher) 26.02.05 19:53

Hi!

About once a week I get this errors in syslog:

Feb 25 20:01:19 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6' Feb 25 20:01:20 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '7' Feb 25 20:01:21 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4' Feb 25 20:01:22 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '7' Feb 25 20:01:23 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '7' Feb 25 20:01:39 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5' Feb 25 20:01:42 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4' Feb 25 20:01:51 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '7' Feb 25 20:01:52 server vdr[20828]: ERROR: unknown picture type '6' Feb 25 20:02:09 server last message repeated 3 times ...

The recordings during this errors are "junk". I can't view this recordings. After stopping VDR and unloading the dvb-drivers the errors are gone.

I searched with Google for this problem and found only the workaround to restart (automatically) VDR when this happens. Some folks also wrote that a bad singal from satellite could be the reason, but the femon-plugin shows this values: STR: 67% SNR: 88% BER: 0 UNC: 0 Are this bad values? (I don't think so.)

i have 68% and 75% on ARD. 70/70 on ZDF 67/82 on 1+ 66/83 on Kabel1 BER= 0 means that the signal is sufficient. I do not realise UPT errors...

The levels are not realy good (i'm sitting at teh end of a much too long wire and need an inline amplfier.)

What is the reason for the "unknown picture type"?

VDR is "out of sync" when trying to interpret the data AFAIK.

I use Kernel 2.6.10, the DVB-drivers which come with 2.6.10 and VDR 1.2.26 on Gentoo-Linux with two FF Hauppauge Nexus-S-cards (rev2.1).