[vdr] Re: Videotext in dual-card setup

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

Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if anyone else noticed this behaviour, but I would consider
> it more a bug than a missing feature:
> 
> I have a setup with DVB-C + DVB-T (both TT-Nexus cards).
> I'm using VDR for quite a while but just recently got proper cabling etc
> setup so I can actually use videotext (too much distortions before).
> 
> My TV is usually connected to the DVB-C card (btw, much sharper picture
> on the composite port, anyone else noticed that?) and when watching
> DVB-T channels the card obviously goes into transfer mode. Strange thing
> is that it will transfer picture and sound to the connected DVB-card but
> not the videotext information... when I try to watch VT on my TV I still
> get the VT of the last DVB-C channel that was tuned.
> If I connect everything the other way around, using the DVB-T card for
> output then I cannot see the VT of DVB-C channels.
> 
> Is this a problem of my setup or is the VT data just not (properly)
> transferred between the cards?

I don't think that VT data can be "played" the way video and audio data is.
VT data is "re-inserted" by the card's firmware from the data stream it
receives from the tuner.

Klaus


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