[vdr] Re: Some questions about plugin-features of vdr-developer...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Steffen Koch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > I don't think that DiSEqC is something that should be handled by a plugin.
> > My plans are to replace the 'diseqc' parameter in the channels.conf file
> > with a more general 'source' parameter. In case of a satellite channel,
> > this would be the satellite position. Then a yet to be written function
> > cDvbDevice::SetDiSEqC() shall take the satellite position, frequency and
> > polarization and generate the necessary DiSEqC commands to set the equipment
> > to receive this channel. In doing so, it shall read a yet to be specified
> > file 'diseqc.conf', which maps the satellite position, frequency and
> > polarization to the installation specific DiSEqC setup.
> >
> > Of course this needs to go into the core cDvbDevice implementation.
> > If you can come up with a useful implementation of a cDvbDevice::SetDiSEqC(),
> > please let me know.
> Is it possible with this implementation to use DVB-s *AND* DVB-c cards
> in the same system?

Sure. The "source" parameter will indicate whether this is a satellite,
cable or terrestrial channel and so the cDvbDevice will "know" which
card(s) can provide the individual channel.

Klaus
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