[vdr] Thank you Klaus

2007-10-15 Thread Josce Unknown
Thank you Klaus for the Subtitles. I have been hoping for this since I first started using vdr some years ago. (I can handle English and German speaking films quite well, but Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces are quite difficult without subtitles.) Since I know you don't need the subtitles I am very g

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting (got it again ... )

2007-06-09 Thread Josce Unknown
Managed to get the PANIC again, by doing this: - set a timer to start 1 hour from now - close vdr - use date to set the clock 5 min forward (with date) - reboot Can someone else reproduce this? Josce Jun 9 22:23:10 localhost vdr: [2220] VDR version 1.4.5 started Jun 9 22:23:10 localhost vdr:

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-09 Thread Josce Unknown
>VDR still defaults to start recordings three minutes before scheduled time, >right? I wouldn't want to rely my recordings on a clock that is that bad. That's why I have set it to start ten minutes earlier :) >The worst I had was on a 286, running 40s off per day. Good thing that this >is over.

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-08 Thread Josce Unknown
>>Well if the PC clock was correct all the time I would probably not have >>to use the set time function :) >Yes, but typically PC HW clock does not drift so much. You could use >hwclock --systohc (and possibly --utc or --localtime) after letting >the vdr to set the system clock. I am sure this

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-05 Thread Josce Unknown
>However, there are some other clock-dependent things in VDR that are not >designed to handle larger clock jumps. Usually, clock jumps should be >just a few seconds, and only after starting VDR. > >You should investigate what causes the clock to jump 4 minutes. If your >PC clock is THAT bad, its pr

[vdr] vdr without a DVB receiver

2007-06-04 Thread Josce Unknown
Using vdr 1.4.7 is it possible to use vdr only for playing back recordings, with xinelibout but without a DVB receiver. Now if I start vdr I get: vdr: no primary device found - using first device! and then it exits The reason is that we will be going on a trip and my daughter would like to ha