Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-06 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 06.04.2010 14:07, Teemu Rantanen wrote: Hi, the right way, of course, is to fix the driver, and make vdr check what device can do. I'm glad Petri had time to test it, and I hope to see the patch in next version of vdr. But I couldn't use the driver patch even if I wanted to patch kernel

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 05.04.2010 00:55, Teemu Rantanen wrote: Hi, There's a new version of the patch implemented as a plugin. It seems to work, but there are few things to notice: - Plugin does not cache which devices are Reddo devices, instead it probes sysfs every time QAM256 channel is being tuned into

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Teemu Rantanen
Hi, I tried also without delete cDeviceHook but it still crashed... Well, the fixes are basically available in the plugin, as I copied the probe method (and modified slightly to suit the plugin). Those are: - The sysfs filenames are idVendor (subsystem_vendor) and idProduct (subsystem_device) -

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Teemu Rantanen
Ok, so the sysfs names of vendor/product are driver-dependent... All my usb devices have idVendor/idProduct even though only one of them is Reddo. Tried to create the hook on Initialize(), still crashes on exit(). Haven't tried your patch, because as far as I know the driver claims it can do

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 05.04.2010 18:14, Teemu Rantanen wrote: Ok, so the sysfs names of vendor/product are driver-dependent... All my usb devices have idVendor/idProduct even though only one of them is Reddo. I'm not saying that what the FuSI driver does is correct, either ;-) Somebody with more knowledge should

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Petri Helin
On 04/05/2010 12:57 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 05.04.2010 00:55, Teemu Rantanen wrote: Hi, There's a new version of the patch implemented as a plugin. It seems to work, but there are few things to notice: - Plugin does not cache which devices are Reddo devices, instead it probes

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-04 Thread Teemu Rantanen
Hi, There's a new version of the patch implemented as a plugin. It seems to work, but there are few things to notice: - Plugin does not cache which devices are Reddo devices, instead it probes sysfs every time QAM256 channel is being tuned into (on any device). It would be nice if cDeviceHook

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-03 Thread Teemu Rantanen
Hi, I bought a Reddo dvb-c usb card last week and wanted to make it a backup card without a risk of it accidentally tuning into QAM256 channel and spitting out garbage. It seems to be quite good value for money in Finland if you want dvb-c usb card and don't need QAM256. I followed this

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-03 Thread VDR User
Klaus added the ability to limit satellites to certain dvb card in VDR-1.7.13. However, a lot of users have the need to do device limiting at the transponder level, which VDR still can't do (and likely will never do I think, unfortunately). But, Klaus also added device hooks in VDR-1.7.13 as

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-03 Thread Teemu Rantanen
I see... I actually noticed cDeviceHook but couldn't figure out if it could be used or not as there was no reference anywhere for it. This patch could be very nicely implemented fully in a plugin. I'll try that... Thanks, Teemu 2010/4/3 VDR User user@gmail.com Klaus added the ability to

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels?with a selected modulation

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Mauch
VDR User wrote: I believe the best way to handle this situation is by allowing the user control over what devices may be used to tune what channels. VDR can't be smart enough to figure it out due to incorrect bad design in v4l. Another strong reason to allow this to be configured at the

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-30 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 30/10/2009, abbe normal 1abenor...@gmail.com wrote: hello guys yes i do think this is a good idea... as with different tuners they could be used for other lnbs like c -band and ku i could only use my s2/s card for services on a c and ku setup then tune and record from different

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-30 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote: Does the sourcecap patch not address this whole issue? Even if source cap or something similar is applied, how will VDR be able to tune to a 8psk turbo-fec type channel if v4l2 does not provide any support

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 29/10/2009, Petri Helin phe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256 modulation. Would it be easy to check FE_CAN_QAM_256 in vdr before

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 10/28/09 23:15, Petri Helin wrote: Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256 modulation. Would it be easy to check FE_CAN_QAM_256 in vdr before trying to use a device

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 10/28/09 23:15, Petri Helin wrote: Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 10/28/09 23:15, Petri Helin wrote: Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
There is the isue whereone tunner might be connected to an LNB on a rotor and another to a fixed. Knowing how the tunner can tune wouldn't help then. - Original Message - From: Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de To: vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:13 AM

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread abbe normal
hello guys yes i do think this is a good idea... as with different tuners they could be used for other lnbs like c -band and ku i could only use my s2/s card for services on a c and ku setup then tune and record from different types of services... then each tuner could live on a fixed satellite

[vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-28 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256 modulation. Would it be easy to check FE_CAN_QAM_256 in vdr before trying to use a device to tune to a particular channel? In

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-28 Thread VDR User
I have 3 dvb-s cards in one of my boxes. 2 of those cards are able to tune all channels in my channels.conf. 1 of them can only tune some. So, the problem is there seems to be no way to specify something like 'use device X,Y,Z' for a certain channel in channels.conf... I had raised this issue