Re: [vdr] Insufficient hardware PID filters on tuner (Klaus Schmidinger)

2010-06-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 13 June 2010 12:05, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote:
 On 06/06/10 23:19, Richard F wrote:
 ...
 Are you aware of anywhere the PID capacity of receivers is published -
 it's not in http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices for
 example?
 - it would be good to publish, so buyers can select better hardware

 Sorry, I don't have that kind of information.

 Klaus


Surely an option here would be to then use a single allow all
filter, and then use software to filter after that.
I think the PID 0x2000 is the permit all filter.
This cheap DVB card could then still be made to work with mythtv.

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Re: [vdr] Insufficient hardware PID filters on tuner (Klaus Schmidinger)

2010-06-06 Thread Richard F

Klaus wrote:

The question is can the total PID count be reduced when VDR is idle, or
is there an assumption that a channel uses fewer than 4 PID's in
calculating how many to leave spare for recordings (if that's how it
works)? 



VDR doesn't do any calculations regarding the number of PID filters.
It just assumes that there will be enough of them ;-)

You might want to try VDR 1.7.14, which saves a few PID filters.
Here's what you could try in VDR 1.6.0-2:

- in eit.c exchange the code after the line // --- cEitFilter ---
  with that from VDR 1.7.14. You may need to leave out the disable until part.
  That saves two PID filters.

- disable setting the system time from the transponder (saves another
  filter in eit.c)

Klaus
  
Great work, thanks Klaus - I patched version 1.6 as you suggest, leaving 
out the disable until bit.
The Freecom USB receiver will now do at least 2 channels simultaneously, 
sometimes 3.  
When idle, 6 PID's are now in use normally instead of 8 (I wasn't 
setting system time - using NTP).


Are you aware of anywhere the PID capacity of receivers is published - 
it's not in http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices for 
example?

- it would be good to publish, so buyers can select better hardware

cheers
Richard

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