[vdr] Re: Help VDR works but no output

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

Emil Naepflein wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:11:10 -0000, "Jonathan Meads"
> <jonathan.meads@talbotuw.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have some problems with vdr, I have a Hauppauge DVB-s and a Hauppauge
> > Nova-t PCI card. I am using the latest DVB driver (not the CVS one) which
> > installed fine, VDR compiles and runs however I have a few problems.
> >
> > I get no output - in the syslog I get the errors "illegal video device
> > handle (-1)!" and "channel # not sync'ed on DVB card 2!" "retrying".
> 
> Your channels.conf file is wrong. Change the index for the DVB-t
> channels to 1.
> 
> > The setup.conf file is as per the default, the channels.conf file I took of
> > Dave Chapmans web site and I removed the satellite channels leaving only the
> > DVB-t channels. (I'm in East London)
> 
> Again, change the index to 1.
> 
> >
> > How do I know that the DVB-s card is the primary card ? is there a way to
> > check if its the primary card ?
> 
> Go to setup OSD and select 0 for the primary. You may also look into
> /var/log/messages and get some hints.
> 
> Emil

Just for clarity: at this level the DVB cards are numbered 1, 2, 3...
So the "first" card has the number '1', not '0'.

Klaus
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