On 05/18/2012 05:04 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 18.05.2012 15:32, brian wrote:
On 05/18/2012 10:04 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 18.05.2012 09:49, brian wrote:
On 05/01/2012 01:28 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 01.05.2012 13:07, brian wrote:
On 05/01/2012 11:54 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 01.05.2012 07:50, brian wrote:
Hi,
doing some pretty heavy testing of VDR 1.7.21 as part of gen2vdr V3 and have now twice had the case that a recording did not end. Supposed to end at 23:10 yesterday, still going strong at 06:00 this morning. Can't find anything in the history file of VDR that this is a know problem and has been fixed in
later versions.
Here is some of the log:

Apr 30 21:59:00 [vdr] [2496] timer 1 (1 2159-2310 'Silent Witness') start Apr 30 21:59:00 [vdr] [2496] Title: 'Silent Witness' Subtitle: 'Fear - Part Two' Apr 30 21:59:00 [vdr] [2496] executing '/tmp/vdr/vdr_record before "/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec"' Apr 30 21:59:00 [logger] BJD g2v_record.sh Called: 0 = /tmp/vdr/vdr_record Apr 30 21:59:00 [logger] 2012-04-30 21:59 /tmp/vdr/vdr_record before /video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec Apr 30 21:59:00 [logger] /usr/sbin/mailtext: Started Start 2012-04-30 21.59 Silent Witness. Apr 30 21:59:00 [logger] [g2v_rec_msg.sh] Silent Witness: Warte auf Verzeichnis
- Last output repeated 2 times -
Apr 30 21:59:01 [sSMTP] Sent mail for brian_dorl...@t-online.de (221 2.0.0 fwd22.t-online.de closing. / Verbindung wird getrennt.) u Apr 30 21:59:01 [logger] Apr 30 21:59:01 gen2vdr sendemail[3863]: Email was sent successfully!
Apr 30 21:59:01 [logger] /usr/sbin/mailtext: Done
Apr 30 21:59:01 [vdr] [2496] record /video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec Apr 30 21:59:01 [vdr] [2496] creating directory /video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec Apr 30 21:59:02 [vdr] [2496] recording to '/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec/00001.ts'


Doesn't seem to try to end at 23:10

Apr 30 22:59:50 [vdr] [2738] channel 1 (BBC 1 London) event Mon 30.04.2012 23:00-23:25 'BBC News' status 4 Apr 30 23:00:01 [cron] (root) CMD (rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Apr 30 23:01:59 [vdr] [2734] read incomplete section - len = 428, r = 214
Apr 30 23:12:36 [ntpd] peer 213.198.55.2 now valid
Apr 30 23:12:39 [ntpd] peer 129.70.132.36 now valid
Apr 30 23:12:48 [ntpd] peer 178.63.99.230 now valid
Apr 30 23:14:41 [vdr] [3935] recording to '/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec/00002.ts' Apr 30 23:18:11 [kernel] lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 1 1 4f9f0193 4f9f0190 87401 aa74b
Apr 30 23:20:41 [ntpd] skew change -36.162 exceeds limit
Apr 30 23:20:41 [ntpd] clock is now synced


Still going strong:

May 01 00:07:37 [vdr] [2738] channel 1 (BBC 1 London) event Tue 01.05.2012 00:05-00:35 'Late Kick Off' status 4 May 01 00:19:30 [vdr] [3935] recording to '/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec/00003.ts' May 01 00:24:40 [vdr] [2779] TVTV: Packed String: DKVxHLuoiXDxsDu98Eavvg==
....
May 01 01:23:04 [vdr] [3935] recording to '/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec/00004.ts'


Deleted the timer manually:

May 01 06:37:39 [vdr] [2496] timer 1 (1 2159-2310 'Silent Witness') stop May 01 06:37:39 [vdr] [2496] executing '/tmp/vdr/vdr_record after "/video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec"' May 01 06:37:39 [logger] BJD g2v_record.sh Called: 0 = /tmp/vdr/vdr_record May 01 06:37:39 [logger] 2012-05-01 06:37 /tmp/vdr/vdr_record after /video/Silent_Witness/2012-04-30.21.59.1-0.rec May 01 06:37:39 [logger] /usr/sbin/mailtext: Started End 2012-04-30 21.59 Silent Witness. May 01 06:37:39 [vdr] [3939] TS buffer on device 3 thread ended (pid=2496, tid=3939)
May 01 06:37:39 [vdr] [3936] buffer stats: 95316 (4%) used
May 01 06:37:39 [vdr] [3936] receiver on device 3 thread ended (pid=2496, tid=3936)

Any ideas?

Did this happen only once, or is it reproducible?

Is this "plain vanilla" VDR or are there any patches involved.
I never had this problem with plain vanilla VDR.

Klaus

Moin,

second time now. Its the standard gen2vdr distribution so various patches and plugins I guess.

I am not trying to use VPS, can I rule that out due to the messages shown?

Since there is no VPS keyword in the timer line at

Apr 30 21:59:00 [vdr] [2496] timer 1 (1 2159-2310 'Silent Witness') start

it's safe to assume that VPS is not being used.

>Apr 30 23:01:59 [vdr] [2734] read incomplete section - len = 428, r = 214

Is the above message important?

No.

I'll try to strip it down then and see if it reoccurs.

Try to get rid of as many patches as possible (preferably all of them ;-).
And use only the plugin necessary for output, nothing else.

Klaus


Hi Klaus,

without plugins up till now no problems till yesterday evening. The VDR is still up, but not recording anything,
no disk activity at all.

May 17 21:59:03 [vdr] [2513] SVDRP message: 'Aufnahme: Close~Lost in Translation'
May 17 21:59:04 [vdr] [2513] info: Aufnahme: Close~Lost in Translation
May 17 21:59:04 [vdr] [2513] closing SVDRP connection
May 17 21:59:06 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated twice -
May 17 21:59:08 [vdr] [4213] buffer usage: 70% (tid=4212)
May 17 21:59:08 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
May 17 21:59:08 [vdr] [4213] buffer usage: 80% (tid=4212)
May 17 21:59:08 [vdr] [4213] buffer usage: 90% (tid=4212)
May 17 21:59:09 [vdr] [4213] buffer usage: 100% (tid=4212)
May 17 21:59:09 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 4 times -
May 17 21:59:13 [vdr] [4218] video directory scanner thread started (pid=2513, tid=4218) May 17 21:59:13 [vdr] [4219] video directory scanner thread started (pid=2513, tid=4219) May 17 21:59:13 [vdr] [4219] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=2513, tid=4219) May 17 21:59:13 [vdr] [4218] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=2513, tid=4218)


Log is full with the following messages:

May 17 21:59:14 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated twice -
May 17 21:59:15 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 21:59:16 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 8 times -
May 17 21:59:24 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 21:59:25 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode

Which I guess means that VDR never got around to checking that the timer had finished. The program was 1hour long with a 20 minute buffer added to the end. Log around the time it should have ended shows nothing.

May 17 23:19:37 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:38 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 3 times -
May 17 23:19:41 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:42 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 3 times -
May 17 23:19:45 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:46 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 2 times -
May 17 23:19:48 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:49 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 3 times -
May 17 23:19:52 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:53 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 5 times -
May 17 23:19:58 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:19:59 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 5 times -
May 17 23:20:04 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:20:05 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 4 times -
May 17 23:20:09 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:20:11 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 4 times -
May 17 23:20:15 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:20:16 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 4 times -
May 17 23:20:20 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:20:21 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode
- Last output repeated 3 times -
May 17 23:20:24 [vdr] [4213] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2
May 17 23:20:25 [vdr] [4212] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode


Emergency Exit = 1 is set in the config.

Any ideas?

These log messages indicate that the output device is in trouble and
doesn't accept data any more. Since this is happening in transfer mode
(i.e. "live"), there is no reason for an "emergency exit". Either switch to a different channel (which will restart the transfer mode and probably
reinitialize the output device) or manually restart VDR.

Klaus

Hi Klaus,

I did restart VDR OK. But, same as last time, hours later the VDR is still running and I assume would keep on running for ever producing these messages, as it seems to have missed the end of the recording, which doesn't seem right somehow.

I don't see how VDR could "miss" the end of a recording (assuming it is not a VPS recording). I guess you'll need to add some debug output to cTimer::Matches() in
order to find out what's going wrong there.

There is no live viewing on this VDR, any idea why it was in transfer mode?

Maybe earlier entries in your log file can answer that question.
Look for a message that indicates the start of the transfer mode thread.

Klaus

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Hi Klaus,
I added some debugging statements to where you suggested, but I am ashamed to say that I can't properly follow the logic, even when it works correctly. Could you please give me some simple
tips?

I have done some C programming in the past, but never any C++.

Cheers Brian














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