[vdr] Re: Two cards, two recordings, bad signal on one = two broken recordings

["Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner@freenet.de>]

Hi Rene,

> > So I'd say everybody should change this in whatever way they
> > consider best fitting.
> 
> Yes, but bad reception shouldn't crash a system.
> 
> What about just checking two values?
> 
> 1.) FE_HAS_LOCK
> 2.) BER
> 
> If there's no FE_HAS_LOCK it might be a crash, but if there's a BER You 
> receive something and the driver hasn't crashed.

The simple answer to that one is not every frontend delivers all values.
Frontends which return a *real* BER are hard to find. I never understood
why Convergence didn't update all the frontends, so that they deliver
all four values (BER, SNR, SS, UNC) of interest

Greetz,
Reinhard


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