[vdr] Re: 2nd apid

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: 2nd apid


> "Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" wrote:
> >
> > > If there is a second audio PID defined for a channel, VDR
> > > does everything necessary
> > > to set up things for recording it. If there is no data
> > > recorded from that PID, there is either
> > > nothing broadcast or the driver doesn't deliver the requested packets.
> >
> > This may be true, but my experience is different:
> > Watching live tv (and there is apid2 in available) VDR never fails to
switch
> > to apid2.
> > While recording, VDR always records apid1 and misses apid2 most of the
time.
> > This behavior is independent of the actual settings in the
channels.conf.
> > E.g. I have the following in my channels.conf:
> > Premiere Sport 1:11720:h:0:27500:255:256,258:0:101:17
> > US Sport 1:11720:h:0:27500:255:258,256:0:101:17
> >
> > I can actually record both channels in parallel (using two DVB-S) and
the
> > result is (in >95% of all cases):
> > The first recording from PS1 will have apid=256
> > the second recording from USS1 will have apid=258
> > as audio. And none of them has both apid1 _AND_ apid2.
> >
> > To conclude, the driver can provide both apids except that there seems
be a
> > problem to get both apids at the same time to VDR.
> >
> > I order to make a test if the error is within the driver or within VDR I
> > come back my original question:
> > Where in the (VDR-)code is a good starting point to _FORCE_ VDR to
record 2
> > apids ?
>
> I wouldn't know. As far as I can see VDR does everything necessary.
>
> Can you try with version 1.1.13? Does it also fail?
>

You use comma to seperate APIDs. If I remind well it's semi-colon, isn't it?

By the way, is it possible to define more than two APIDs?

Rene



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