Hi Mattia, every DVB-S card has a cable of its own, no pass through. Regards, Andreas On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:18, Mattia Rossi wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:46:46 +0200 > > Andreas Mair <Andreas.Mair@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm experiencing problems with my VDR box. I've used different VDR > > releases (1.3.37 to 1.3.48), different firmwares (f62623 to fd2623) and > > different DVB drivers (this monday's hg and original kernel 2.6.14.2). > > The box features 2 FF cards (1.3 and 2.2). > > > > So what happens? > > When a timer starts while watching LiveTV (ZDF or BR) the live picture > > gets disturbed and audio consists only of some peaks. Even if I'm > > watching ZDF and the timer is recording ZDF. The recording is fine. > > It's impossible to continue viewing that channel. The picture is only > > fine when switching to a limited number of channels: Pro7, Sat1, Kabel1 > > (and what else belongs to this group). Switching to Das Erste, ZDF, BR, > > WDR, NDR... or the RTL group shows trash. > > > > The log is full of lines like: > > frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 2, tp 111953 > > regained lock... > > > > It doesn't help if the timer stops. But restarting VDR then (no DVB > > drivers are reloaded!) LiveTV is fine again. > > > > I don't know what else I can do/try :( > > > > Any help/hints appreciated! > > Hi Andreas, > do you have two different sat cables running to the two cards or are you > using the pass through cable of the rev 1.3 card to feed the sat siggnal > to the 2.2 card ? > > In the latter case, it is a standar behaviour, since you will be able to > tune the second card only to channels that have the same polarity as the > channel you are recording on the first card. > > If you have indeed two different cables running from your dish, then > maybe you have a faulty dual LNB and or problems with the connection. > > If you explein how you connected the dish to your two cards it would help > to start guessing in the right direction > > Regards > > Mattia > > > > ---MR.--- > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM
