[vdr] Re: debuging-output for the (dvb)card in use ...

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

Hermann Gausterer wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> i am one of the famous "video data stream broken" people and want to get more
> info out of vdr in case of such an event ... sadly the source of vdr is to
> complex for me ...
> 
> i want to know, when an recording in an multicard-setup is started

See cRecordControls::Start().

> and if an
> "data stream" breaks, on which card is it happend,  at best in syslog ...

See cRecorder::Action().

> there is the function cRecordingUserCommand::InvokeCommand
> in which the syslog entry for a recording is generated, and i know where all
> the other events, i am interested in, are logged, but in which variable is the
> card number (used for this operation) stored?

You could introcude

  class cReceiver {
    ...
  protected:
    cDevice *Device(void) { return device; }

to get access to the recording device and output

  Device()->Number();

in cRecorder::Action().

> in which function happens the allocation for the devices (which recording
> starts on which card, epg-scan took which card .. and so one ...)

In cRecordControls::Start() you can see the recording device.

Klaus