Re: [vdr] Using different types of device for the same channel

2010-03-30 Thread Rob Davis
 On 30 March 2010 21:26, Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info wrote:

 I don't know if I immagined it, but is there a way to get VDR to use a
 secondary channel if the first channel is busy?

 To give an explanation, I have multiple ways a I can receive a channel,
 through ATSC, or through PVRINPUT or NTSC.  I would like to know if
 there
 is a rollover system, if the first channel is busy, use the second, then
 third.

 It seems I saw something which suggested this was possible, but maybe
 not..


 I think the current method is, one channel is tried on multiple
 devices matching the same source type. Channel 1 is dvb-s, tried on
 card-x to card-z of the same source type. I am not sure if there is a
 way to roll-over to another channel/different source type. How would
 this have to be handled? Will these channels be grouped together?


At the moment I have lots of different channels for each source.

I'm guessing we could have a transparency file..

T-0-567-4 P-0-40-1 P-0-64-1-64

So if T-0-567-4 is busy, use P-0-40-1, if that's busy use P-0-64-1-64

(Numbers taken from Streamdev, no idea if they're correct..)


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Re: [vdr] Using different types of device for the same channel

2010-03-30 Thread Rob Davis
 Theunis Potgieter wrote:

 It could be possible to do it in a similar way as Alternative channel
 -patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Alternative_channel-patch)
 handles alternative channels. But since that patch only works for
 recording a channel it would need some work.


Does this patch still work for 1.7.12 or above? My German is not good, but
I can see it was applied to VDR 1.4.x..


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Re: [vdr] Using different types of device for the same channel

2010-03-30 Thread L. Hanisch

Hi Rob,

Am 30.03.2010 22:30, schrieb Rob Davis:

Theunis Potgieter wrote:



It could be possible to do it in a similar way as Alternative channel
-patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Alternative_channel-patch)
handles alternative channels. But since that patch only works for
recording a channel it would need some work.



Does this patch still work for 1.7.12 or above? My German is not good, but
I can see it was applied to VDR 1.4.x..


 copperhead from the vdr-portal has a collection of different patches for the recent vdr. It contains the alternate 
channel-patch.


 http://copperhead.vdr-developer.org/patches.html

 You can disable all the other patches at the Make.config.template.

Lars.

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Re: [vdr] Using different types of device for the same channel

2010-03-30 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
What plugin are you using for ntsc and how are you making the 
channels.conf for ntsc? I have an HVR-1800 and the wiki says it is 
supported , but I've heard elsewhere that it isn't.


On 3/30/2010 12:26 PM, Rob Davis wrote:

I don't know if I immagined it, but is there a way to get VDR to use a
secondary channel if the first channel is busy?

To give an explanation, I have multiple ways a I can receive a channel,
through ATSC, or through PVRINPUT or NTSC.  I would like to know if there
is a rollover system, if the first channel is busy, use the second, then
third.

It seems I saw something which suggested this was possible, but maybe not..


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Re: [vdr] Using different types of device for the same channel

2010-03-30 Thread Rob Davis
On 30/03/10 17:23, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
 What plugin are you using for ntsc and how are you making the
 channels.conf for ntsc? I have an HVR-1800 and the wiki says it is
 supported , but I've heard elsewhere that it isn't.
 

I don't think it is, as it's a dual mode card, so VDR will assume it's a
DVB card and not allow it to work with IVTV..

I use a Hauppauge PVR-500 which I got on eBay..

I have a script to generate channels.conf for PVRInput and ATSC Clear
Qam, which I'm about to publish.. Although it's a bit random.. I need to
tidy it up a little first.  It requires a kaffeine channels.dvb
(generated by w_scan as w_scan won't generate a qam vdr channels.conf),
then uses xmltv's output to find channel names and xmltv id's (for
loadepg.pl), and then finds their channels from silicondusts qam lookup
page using your zip code.

Convoluted, but seems to work.  Comcast are messing around weekly with
our channels, which is what drove me to this..

 On 3/30/2010 12:26 PM, Rob Davis wrote:
 I don't know if I immagined it, but is there a way to get VDR to use a
 secondary channel if the first channel is busy?

 To give an explanation, I have multiple ways a I can receive a channel,
 through ATSC, or through PVRINPUT or NTSC.  I would like to know if there
 is a rollover system, if the first channel is busy, use the second, then
 third.

 It seems I saw something which suggested this was possible, but maybe
 not..


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