Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 06.01.2010 14:22, Tomasz Bubel wrote: > > [...] > >> - Added support for DVB cards with multiple fontends. Note that this only > >> works for DVB cards where each frontend can be used independently of all > >> the others on the same adapter. > > [...] > > Any chance of using using DVB-T frontend on HVR-4000? This card have 2 > > separate frontends. And as quoted on > > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000: > > > > "Multiple frontends are supported: DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T appear as > > /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend0 and /dev/dvb/adapterN/frontend1 > > respectively. > > > > Due to a hardware limitation, the two frontends cannot be used > > simultaneously. However they can be used sequentially within the same > > application. The driver handles the mutual exclusion appropriately." > > Well, that's still a problem. > Is there a defined way (via the LinuxDVB driver API) through which VDR > can find out whether the frontends can be used independently? Afaik DVB API does not specify any way to do that. For now, I suggest that you simply try to open the frontend. If this fails, you may assume some kind of ressource limitation... CU Oliver -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ 4 MByte Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-mem-mod/ Full-TS Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-full-ts-mod/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
