[vdr] Re: LNB sharing in 1.1.x ?

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

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:05:10PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > If I understand this correctly the "LNB sharing patch" is meant for
> > systems that have only one LNB, but several DVB cards. So if one
> > recording is going on, the rest of the cards are limited to the
> > polarization and frequency range (high or low) defined by the DVB card
> > that is currently recording - is that about right? Sorry, I've never looked
> > into that patch since my system has a separate cable for each DVB
> > card, connected to the LBN via a multiswitch.
> 
> I am not sure about the frequency range, but one should also take into
> account the diseqc (and we also got a really big discussion on this ml
> about that...).

That's right.

> > With the modifications I have recently made for allowing simultaneous
> > recording and replay with only one DVB card (which I hope to be able to
> > finish and release over the weekend) I believe it should be easy to
> > implement such a feature in the main VDR program. Just let me know if
> > the above description of what's supposed to happen is correct and I'll
> > see what I can do.
> 
> Are we really that close to 1.2?

There are still a few things to do... ;-)

Klaus
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