[vdr] Re: Dxr3 and three DVB cards with VDR

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

Richard Walker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I can't get this setup working.  :(
> 
> I've decided to get VDR up-and-running again.  Late last year, I had it
> running on my system with a single DVB-T card (Hauppauge Nova-T) and a
> Dxr3.
> 
> I've now added a Nebula (budget) DVB-T card, and a Hauppauge Nova-S
> card.  All of these cards work fine in the system with dvbstream etc.
> Note:
> 
>      richard@vdr:~$ dmesg | grep DVB
>      DVB: registering new adapter (Nebula DigiTV DVB-T).
>      DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (NxtWave NXT6000)...
>      DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-S  PCI).
>      DVB: registering frontend 1:0 (STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based)...
>      DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T  PCI).
>      DVB: registering frontend 2:0 (Grundig 29504-401)...
> 
> I want to use VDR with these three budget cards, and my Dxr3 card.
> 
> I've got the dvb-kernel, Dxr3 and LIRC code compiled and running OK.
> VDR and the Dxr3 plugin have been built successfully.
> 
> I tried to run VDR with -Pdxr3, and I get this:
> 
>    May 13 18:24:51 vdr vdr[2462]: found 3 video devices
>    May 13 18:24:51 vdr vdr[2462]: initializing plugin: dxr3 (0.1.9):
> DXR3-MPEG decoder plugin
>    May 13 18:24:51 vdr vdr[2462]: setting primary device to 1
>    May 13 18:24:51 vdr vdr[2462]: device 1 has no MPEG decoder
> 
> If I create a setup.conf, with only 'PrimaryDVB = x' (where 'x' is 1, 2
> or 3) and re-run VDR, I'll get the same error.
> 
> If I set x to 0, or 4 and higher, I get:
> 
>    richard@vdr:~$ vdr -L/usr/local/lib/vdr -Pdxr3
>    vdr: no primary device found - using first device!
> 
> Back when I only had the single Nova-T and the Dxr3, I had to use
> 'PrimaryDVB = 2', but that doesn't work now.
> 
> Any ideas?

The device number 4 should be the one to use.
Can you please post the complete logfile contents, beginning at the line
looking like

May 13 06:29:26 video vdr[11331]: VDR version 1.1.31 started

without editing anything out or wrapping the lines?
And please try it with VDR 1.1.31.

Klaus
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