The WinTV HVR-4000-HD is a multi-tuners TV card with 2 dvb tuners. It look like its driver doesn't have been updated to the new DVB-API.
The problem I get with dvr is than vdr only seam to recognize and use the first tuner of my Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000-HD. The devices are in /dev/dvb/adapter0: # ls /dev/dvb/adapter0 demux0 demux1 dvr0 dvr1 frontend0 frontend1 net0 net1 frontend0 is the dvb-s tuner and frontedn1 is the dvb-t/c tuner, and I want to be able to use both of them. It is a hardware limitation in that card (among other) that make not possible to use those 2 tuners at the same time. When starting vdr, the only error message I get at the console is, when I make udev to create symlinks like /dev/dvb/adapter1/*0 to /dev/dvb/adapter0/*1: * VDR errors from /var/log/messages: * ERROR: /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0: Device or resource busy I can use mplayer instead of vdr. It work with the symiliks with "mplayer dvb://2@", and without the symlinks by acceding directly the adapter0/drv1 device after tuning with tzap. When trying to access one of the dvb-t channels from shmclient, it tell me "Channel not available". vdr holds an opened handle on the frontend during its running time. Since the DVB-S frontend is the first one, DVB-T does not work. Some months ago the linux-media DVB-API was extended so multiple delivery systems can be accessed through one frontend, if they are mutually exclusive. Sadly the driver for the HVR 4000 was forgotten. I don't want to buy another TV card or a TV set. So, can I hope than, in the reasonably near future, someone on this list will get some time to fix and update the HVR 4000 driver? Dominique -- "We have the heroes we deserve." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
