Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread VDR User
> I would like to know which magic switch behind a single cable receiving only > one polarization/band allows feeding multiple tuners with independent > signals. ;-) There is no "magic", you probably should read up on switches I guess. ___ vdr

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread VDR User
> pretty simple, there are users who cannot change their SAT infrastructure > easily. The reasons are varied, e.g. they are tenants and not allowed to > change it by the owners, they own it and cannot change it due to the rules of > commonhold association or the own it and the construction of

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread Markus Meier
Happy new year!   I second that feedback from forums like vdr-portal.de would probably be more significant.   I have been using the old LNB-sharing patch for years and really appreciated when device bonding became part of vdr itself. I am still using the feature and find it is one of the cool

[vdr] vdr-convert updated, call for sample recordings

2017-01-01 Thread Richard F
Happy New Year VDR users. There have been a few updates to the vdr-convert script + tools over at https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert/wiki in the last few weeks: * Added support for AC3/DTS streams in VDR1.x recordings (updated Genindex). Needs more compatibility

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread Andreas Regel
Am 01.01.2017 um 18:36 schrieb VDR User: >> they do in vdr-portal.de ... as I already do remember a bunch of users still >> using that function and the reasons why, so no what-if-scenarios. > > Not sure why you didn't mention that earlier but aside of that it > still doesn't answer this part:

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread fnu
Derek, pretty simple, there are users who cannot change their SAT infrastructure easily. The reasons are varied, e.g. they are tenants and not allowed to change it by the owners, they own it and cannot change it due to the rules of commonhold association or the own it and the construction of

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread VDR User
> they do in vdr-portal.de ... as I already do remember a bunch of users still > using that function and the reasons why, so no what-if-scenarios. Not sure why you didn't mention that earlier but aside of that it still doesn't answer this part: "I'd like to know why they don't just use a switch.

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread fnu
Derek, they do in vdr-portal.de ... as I already do remember a bunch of users still using that function and the reasons why, so no what-if-scenarios. fnu ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread VDR User
There's no point in worrying about what-if scenarios, actual real world usage is what matters. Klaus is giving those who use device bonding the chance to speak up now. If there's very little-to-no interest in it, it's gone. Unless I've misunderstood the intention here. If there rally is someone

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread fnu
> So I take it you yourself are *not* using this feature, right? Not active anymore, but in the past for many years, just up to a couple of years ago for my development machine. Getting rid of that feature may also causing the comeback of any sort of patch, maybe causing other issue, nobody

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 01.01.2017 13:57, fnu wrote: Hi Klaus, well, you're right it's a hack, but IMHO not really an ugly one. A similar function is up today part of some premium products from Loewe or Metz, bonding two DVB-S/S2 tuners. Originally it was limited to two devices, what really can make sense. I

Re: [vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread fnu
Hi Klaus, well, you're right it's a hack, but IMHO not really an ugly one. A similar function is up today part of some premium products from Loewe or Metz, bonding two DVB-S/S2 tuners. Originally it was limited to two devices, what really can make sense. I have never seen any reason to make

[vdr] [POLL] Is anybody actually using "device bonding" (aka "LNB sharing)?

2017-01-01 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Implementing "device bonding" (formerly known as "LNB sharing") has had quite an impact on VDR's dvbdevice.c, and made the code quite a bit more complex. Since this feature is really just an ugly hack, and it makes much more sense to provide each device with its own antenna cable, rather that

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] cDevice::GetDeviceForTransponder(): fix a typo

2017-01-01 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 28.12.2016 15:26, glenvt18 wrote: Just an observation. That code from vdr.c that calls GetDeviceForTransponder() (for example, when a VPS timer is about to start) can only interrupt tasks with priority < LIVEPRIORITY anyway. It looks like disabling priority checking can't do much harm here.