[vdr] Re: Can vdr work without antenna? (play recordings)

[Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>]

It seem to me from you explanation that VDR will even work without any 
DVB card at all ?
Is it true ?
It still must find a device to display things, and softdevice will 
provide one - the CLE266 MPEG2 chipset of my EPIA-M 10k.

(I'm in the process of setting up VDR, but didn't actually decide for 
which DVB card I wish to have : depends on capabilities, card size, 
temperature, power, etc.)

Walter Schittek wrote:

> Simple solution if (all) your DVB card(s) have no antenna signal:
>
> - Save your channels.conf and make it empty (0 bytes).
> - Save your timers.conf and make it empty (0 bytes).
> - Be sure that your vdr command line(s) (normal start, automatic restart 
> when dead) don't contain the -s option, otherwise vdr would shutdown 
> your PC after some time because he has no active timers.
> - Restart vdr.
>
> When you get the antenna signal back, restore the channels.conf and 
> timers.conf, restart vdr and clean up the timers.
>
> I have a rev 2.1 DVB-s card, and this works very well for me. Without 
> antenna signal, VDR presents a black TV screen, but plays recordings and 
> DVDs.
>
> I came to this solution when I noticed that (in /var/log/messages) vdr 
> did not complain about an empty channels.conf, but then complained about 
> an undefined channel in timers.conf.
>
> (Not only) at this point, vdr seems to be coded very logically. If there 
> is no channel to tune and no timer to watch, it leaves the DVB card 
> alone (with tuning) and still runs with all the other capabilities it 
> has. Well done!
>
> Walter
--
Nicolas Huillard
Directeur Technique
GHS Solutions Interactives
38, rue du Texel - 75014 PARIS - FRANCE
Tél. 01 43 21 16 66 - Fax 01 56 54 02 18
E-mail : nhuillard@ghs.fr - URL : http://www.ghs.fr
--------------------------------------------------------------------
e-dition, la solution Internet pour la presse écrite et l'édition

Visitez notre site : http://www.e-dition.fr
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Nos dernières réalisations :

SANTE-CONSULTE - Toute l'information des professions de santé
	http://www.sante-consulte.com
CSN - Conseil National des Forces de Vente
	http://www.csn.fr
FRANCE-CHIMIE - Toute la chimie, parachimie et pharmacie
	http://www.france-chimie.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------



--
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.