Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Manu Abraham schrieb: > >>> I know DVB-S2 cards can do DVB-S that's the reason to force VDR to use >>> DVB-S only cards for DVB-S before the DVB-S2 ones, which if you want a >>> DVB-S2 channels, so is your DVB-S2 cards free. >>> >>> But one should get a way to tell VDR no to try to tune DVB-S2 channels >>> on DVB-S card. >> You can do that. In fact the application should do a DVBFE_GET_INFO. This will query >> the capability of that specific driver. Based on the driver capabilities, issue a tuning >> request. That way a tune will be attempted only on the capable device. >> >> It is a simple check, though. >> >> Reinhard, >> >> The patched version doesn't look at the device capability flags, before issuing a tune ? >> Or is something else wrong/missing ? > > I must admit, I didn't have a look at the source code so far, but > from what I recall, I don't think that it is that easy. I think, > a simple check will only make VDR tell you that the channel in > question cannot be received. > > I've experienced myself that VDR used the DVB-S2 card for a DVB-S > recording and then endlessly tried to switch to a DVB-S2 channel > using the DVB-S card -- obviously without success. How can you ask a DVB-S device to tune to DVB-S2 ? Poor demodulator, it has to do what it is not even capable of. :) > VDR's device selection logic is already quite complex. It has to > deal with FF cards which have so far been used to watch the DVB-S > channels, cards which provide CI interfaces and simple receiver > cards. Moreover it now would have to deal with cards capable of > doing DVB-S2, with or without CI interface respectively. The logic wouldn't be much different. It is the same as requesting a DVB-C device to be tuned to DVB-S. The CI interface doesn't make the hardware look any different. > As I'm only distributing the DVB-S2 part which Marco Schlüßler > provided several months ago, I've contacted him and asked him for > an update. Ok, I will ask Marco on the relevant. Thanks for the feedback. Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
