BUT there is somewhere bug in the vdr channel tuning because it seems that if I want to watch dvb-s or dvb-s2 channels, I must first tune to correct channel with vdr-1.6.0 or with szap-s2...
I do not see such a behavior with stb0899 based TT-3200 here. Arte and ArteHD work out of the box with VDR-1.7.2 using this repository:
http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin
Sure, had to add 2g flag in stb0899 source though. Before using this repository it was hardly possible to tune to ArteHD.
Ok, so one would need to find out what are the real S2API tuning specific code in vdr h264 extension patches so that I could find out why vdr fails to tune with hvr-4000. Or actually maybe the correct answer is to understand what is the difference between those two S2-API drivers.
szap-s2 seems to work with my card fastly when the tuning data is available. With scan-s2 I remember having some problems for finding HD channels if I had not szapped first.
I will try the s2-liplian tree also omorrow for verifying whether that tree works identically with my card.
Could you send for verification how you have defined arteHD data in vdr channels.conf? (Just to verify that I do not have there any mistakes) I have it in following way: arte HD;ZDFvision:11361:hC23M16O35S1:S19.2E:22000:6210=27:6221=deu,6222=fra:6230:0:11120:1:1011:0
Mika