[vdr] Re: How to do a (full) channel scan within VDR?

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Joerg Knitter wrote:

> If you donīt have all available channels/transponders in the 
> channels.conf, "svdrpsend.pl chan x" does not help. And "svdrpsend.pl 
> scan" did not work on a single card system when I tested it last with 
> VDR 1.3.12 - I have a dual card system so I donīt have this problem.
>
> Any other possibilities to find new channels on a one-card-system?
When you have a single budget card system and use vdr-xine then transfer 
mode is active all the time and no complete epgscan can happen even it 
is started from the epg setup with the scan button (VDR will just scan 
the current transponder).

Isn't it that VDR drops transfer mode to do a complete epg scan if there 
has been a long time of user inactivity?

Anyway, replaying a recording and pausing it will release the single 
device from transfer mode and VDR will start an epg scan after 60 seconds.

Be aware that due to the paused recording VDR will not shut down as it 
would do when transfer mode is active.

I'm just thinking about adding a similar feature to vdr-xine: when xine 
is not connected to vdr-xine, vdr-xine will play the NO SIGNAL recording 
and pause it to release it's transfer mode receiver device. Just on 
connect by xine, vdr-xine will stop playing it's recording and live TV 
will continue just as it is currently happening all the time. But it 
should not hinder VDR to shut down due to user inactivity. At least this 
issue should be solved before such a feature can be implemented.

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@gmx.de