[rdorsch]

Hi,

I am running openelec 6.0.0 with VNSI version="1.10.10" and VDR backend version="6.0.1". Many things run very well, EPG, recording, timeshift, .... very nice :-)

I see two minor issues:

1) VNSI deletes recordings from the GUI, but they are still present on the file system, i.e. the files are not deleted. I need to ssh into the box and delete them manually to free up the storage. Not a problem for me, but my dad for whom the box is intended would have trouble with this.

Is that a known issue? If not, how can I debug this? I do not see suspicious entries in kodi.log

2) When I activate timeshift to FILE, Live TV starts buffering every few minutes. kodi.log then contains

Code:

10:28:43 T:2818602048 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
10:28:43 T:2785047616 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
10:28:43 T:2743104576   ERROR: CDVDMsgGeneralSynchronize - timeout
10:28:44 T:2785047616   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
10:28:44 T:2785047616  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32

This happens even if I never press stop, i.e. there is no need to write data to disk (which is a microSD card in my case). I assume timeshift unconditionally writes data to the disk (?).

Is there a good way to confirm that this is an SD card performance issue (w/o buying another one)?

Are there any known microSD cards which have sufficient performance to work with timeshift?

Thanks for the nice software
Rainer

[FernetMenta]

1) see vdr documentation. New recordings will overwrite old ones that have the deleted flag. You even can undelete recordings.

2) no experience with timeshift on sd cards.

[rdorsch]

Thanks for your quick reply. The deletion mechanism is impressive, I just realized that now.

Though I did not find a reference to the undelete in

http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Vdr(5)

but I assume that deleting sets implicitly Lifetime to 0.

Does this mean that recordings should be on a separate partition to avoid that any partition is filled up?

For timeshift: Does timeshift always write recording data to disk (on not just on-demand when the pause button was pressed) ? Otherwise it would not make sense that enabling timeshift influences LiveTV....

[FernetMenta]

Does this mean that recordings should be on a separate partition to avoid that any partition is filled up?

I would recommend this.

For timeshift: Does timeshift always write recording data to disk

In file mode yes. Otherwise you won't be able to navigate back. On my living room system I use an external 2.5 HD (USB 2). Should be ext4 formatted, NTFS does not work because the driver is crap.