Hi Team.
Just would like to start this post with a big thankyou to everyone who contributes to VDR. It's a great piece of software and I have really enjoyed toying with it over the past 6 months or so.
I've recently started using xinelibout plugin. I have a vanilla vdr 1.4.7 apprat from the xinelibout plugin.
I've recently found that sometimes when watching a stream that is currently recording, not sure why (could be load, disk speed etc) I will see some on-screen stutering. The scenario that happened last night was as follows.
Recording a 2.5hr show / stream. The recording was about 1hr 20 or so mins through. I had been watching the stream for about 30 minutes but was up to about 40minutes in the stream, when I saw some "digital" noise on the screen. Like when you have a mild scratch on a dvd. blocking etc. I happened maybe twice or three times over about 10 to 15 seconds and then went away..
Then, when I got to about 1hr20 minutes through watching the stream; I get the "no signal" screen. I tried "stopping" playback (so go back to live tv) and no signal doesn't get replaced by the live tv. I then tried to watch some other recordings.. and the same thing happens (that is, nothing.. the display shows like it's watching a show, but the clock is stoped and ff/ww/jump don't change the clock value..).
So.. What can I do to debug whats going on and why??
Regards,
Mick
On 8/3/07, mike lewis lachlanlewis@gmail.com wrote:
So.. What can I do to debug whats going on and why??
First of all you'd need to tell us the version of xineliboutput you are using and the way you use/start xineliboutput. Which frontend do you use (remote or local), what parameters do you give to xineliboutput, what settings have you set and so on. Also information about cpu load and used hardware could be useful.
I use remote frontend (vdr-sxfe) and start it like this in a script:
STARTTIME=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M` vdr-sxfe --reconnect --fullscreen --audio=alsa --video=xv --display=0.0 --verbose xvdr://127.0.0.1 2> /var/log/vdr/vdr-sxfe_err_${STARTTIME}.log 1> /var/log/vdr/vdr-sxfe_${STARTTIME}.log &
That way I have always a log of what's happened.
-Petri