VDR User wrote:
> I believe the best way to handle this situation is by allowing the
> user control over what devices may be used to tune what channels. VDR
> can't be smart enough to figure it out due to incorrect & bad design
> in v4l. Another strong reason to allow this to be configured at the
> user-level is what if the the user has 2 devices...both able to tune a
> channel but the signal is weak. Tuner 1 can tune it fine but tuner 2
> has problems because of the weak signal. VDR is simply going to ask a
> free tuner 'can you tune this?', whereas the best scenario would be
> for the user to say 'use tuner 1 for this channel'.
>
> I can think of two ways to better deal with this; adding a new field
> in channels.conf,
Doesn't the CA field in channels.conf already allow this?
Conditional access
A hexadecimal integer defining how this channel can be
accessed:
0000 Free To Air
0001...000F explicitly requires the device with the given number
I don't know if it works if you specify more than one device, but it
certainly works to specify only one device.
Regards...
Michael
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