[vdr] Re: vdrpsend.pl: wrong video device selection for grab

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

z-mail@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> hi list!
> 
> this is a bug/feature request for vdr:
> 
> when sending the command grab (with vdrpsend.pl) to vdr it grabs a video
> image from the wrong device. this is because i have a little unusual
> configuration.
> i have an analogue card (autodetected by hotplug as /dev/v4l/video0) and
> then the hauppauge dvb card (autodetected as /dev/v4l/video1
> and /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0).
> 
> vdr grabs the image from /dev/video0 but it should grab it from the first
> DVB device!
> 
> of course i can disable the autodetection and insert the modules by hand,
> first the dvb than the analogue tv modules. then the order of
> the /dev/video is good and vdr grab works as expected. but i think that
> this is not the EXPECTED behaviour.

Actually VDR tries to find the offset of the video device in cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice(int n).
You might want to debug why this doesn't work in your environment (well, maybe
it doesn't work at all and you could fix it ;-) Here on my system the offsets
are "in sync", so I can't test that.

Klaus