Re: [vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-28 Thread Richard F
On 28/11/2022 18:17, Marko Mäkelä wrote: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:27:08PM +, Richard F wrote: FYI I'm using the powersaving patch on a system with an Astrometa USB stick + an old Winfast PCI receiver, and I see 2-3W reduction when the Astrometa frontend is shut down: I only tested with a s

Re: [vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-28 Thread Marko Mäkelä
Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:27:08PM +, Richard F wrote: FYI I'm using the powersaving patch on a system with an Astrometa USB stick + an old Winfast PCI receiver, and I see 2-3W reduction when the Astrometa frontend is shut down: I only tested with a single receiver. Your patch may very well s

Re: [vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-28 Thread Richard F
I conducted this test without applying the patch https://github.com/glenvt18/vdr/commit/b368f67d00d0b466ae36028efb9336e81f77dba8 As far as I can tell, even with that patch the EPG parser could keep running, because the patch does not set the variable InhibitEpgScan.  That would explain why

[vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-27 Thread Marko Mäkelä
Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 10:52:11PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote: I noticed that VDR is consuming about 5% of the CPU power according to "top". Could it not be made more event-based? It might be interesting to check with "powertop" how many wakeups per second there are, and with "perf record" and "per