Martin Dauskardt wrote: > I upgraded to 1.4.1-4, which seems to include the patch from Anssi > (http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-August/010360.html ) > > I am not happy with this patch: My machine has a FF-card and > Budget-Card+CAM. There was no timer for any encrypted channel > programmed. All active timers were set for ARD. I had absolutely no > plans to watch Premiere, I was not even at home :-) > But all recordings were done with the FF card. vdr started with the ARD > channel, and the well known performance problem of FF cards resulted in > bad recordings (buffer usage ... /clearing). Interesting. So there was just one channel recording and the FF card already run out of bandwidth? Do you use a recent (like newer than 1 year) DVB driver and firmware? > You see, I want the the opposite than the original poster asked for. For > me it is more important to get good recordings than to be able to switch > to an encrypted channel why recording another one. > So I want vdr to always use the Budget card for recordings.Can this be > done in any way without patching vdr? Is there any solution I don`t see? > (Of course I don?t want to hardcode every channel in channels.conf to > the Budget card. I still want to be able to make two FTA-recordings on > different frequencies.) > > I think the best solution would be to make this configurable in DVB > settings or in timer menu so that the user can select the DVB card he > wants to use for the recording. Unless Klaus comes up with something smart we didn't thought, there are few possibilities to resolve this by adding a config option: a) selection of the preferred card for recordings b) alternatively, a list of preferred cards in order of priority c) or a bool value to select whether to prefer Budget-CI or FF The resulting new rule in GetDevice() should be placed between the "lowest priority" check and the "lowest CA" check. -- Anssi Hannula
