Re: [vdr] Tuner switch when timer starts recording
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 ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Falk Spitzberg Tel: +49 5242 901626 E-Mail: p...@spitzberg.de ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Tuner switch when timer starts recording
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 See device.c, cDevice *cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView). Klaus ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] Tuner switch when timer starts recording
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. Falk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
