Re: Tuner switch when timer starts recording

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Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009, 13:34 +0100 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> On 18.11.2009 08:40, Falk Spitzberg wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > With VDR 1.7.9 i often notice that VDR switches the live TV to a
> > different receiver card, when a timer starts recording, although the
> > second card is available. This causes a short interrupt in live TV.
> > 
> > My system has two DVB cards, an old FF and a Tevii S470, and an eHD.
> > 
> > Sample situation 1: the only activity is live TV on ZDF. Now a timer
> > starts recording from RTL 2, which interrupts the live program for a
> > short moment.
> > 
> > Sample situation 2: the only activity is live TV on RTL. Now a timer
> > starts recording from RTL 2. Nothing happens, because VDR correctly
> > shares the transponder with live TV.
> > 
> > I would understand when VDR switches live TV from the DVB-S2 card to the
> > DVB-S card when it needs to tune a different transponder for a DVB-S2
> > recording, but since it can do DVB-S recordings from any card, there is
> > no reason to switch live TV for such recordings.
> 
> When recording, VDR tries to preserve devices that provide multiple
> delivery systems:
> 
>   imp <<= 2; imp |= GetClippedNumProvidedSystems(2, device[i]) - 1; // avoid cards which support multiple delivery systems

Then it would be a good idea to prefer those cards for live view.

> 
> See device.c, cDevice *cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView).
> 
> Klaus
> 
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