Hi, Dieter Bloms wrote: > Feb 9 12:02:00 video vdr: [30529] switching device 2 to channel 1 > Feb 9 12:02:09 video vdr: [30537] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1, tp 111836 > Feb 9 12:02:32 video vdr: [30603] ERROR: video data stream broken > > so why can I get ts streams from the second dvb card and vdr doesn't get > any bytes ? As you can see from the above lines, tuning fails for device 2 (= frontend 1) as VDR reports a timeout about 10 seconds after switching to this channel. VDR retries tuning in that case, but further reports are suppressed for the next 60 seconds so you don't see a second timeout report. Finally, after 30 seconds, the recording thread issues an emergency exit as it didn't see any data (=> video data stream broken) as the device was not able to tune to the channel. Is your DiSEqC setup correct (in case you are using DiSEqC)? Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx