On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:22:10AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > Hi, > > I recently added a third budget card to my VDR which contained 2 budgets > pointing at Astra so far (using softdevice for decoding): > ... > During my first runs I had connected the third LNB to one of the budgets > by just moving one sat cable to the new LNB. I could watch all channels > from Astra and Hotbird O.K. The SkyStar2 was not connected so far. > > Now adding the SkyStar2 card: > ... > This card is connected to a LNB pointing at Hotbird. dvbscan shows all the > channels on the respecive cards just fine. I generated the channels.conf > listing using dvbscan. > > But from then on, I could either see the Astra channels or the Hotbird > channels within VDR, never both sets at the same time. It appears as > if only card #0 is active (the Activy card), no matter which LNB is > connected to which budget card. > > What am I missing? As far as I know there is no way (and no point) > in telling VDR to use cards #0 and #1 for Astra and #2 for Hotbird. Is > that a known problem between (certain versions of) budget/-ci and b2c2 > cards / drivers? What you're missing is "soucecaps" patch, it tells vdr which card can see which satellite. There's patch for 1.3.39 which applies OK for 1.4.x too: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-January/007356.html
