On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
That is also my understanding of multi frontend devices. If an "adapter" has several "frontends" only one of them can be active at any given time. This has nothing to do with any "explosives" (excuse the pun ;-) and will be implemented in the core VDR code as time permits. Right now I'm cleaning up the "lnb sharing" (aka "device bonding") stuff and will hopefully find more time for VDR development by the end of the year (and thereafter).
If I am following you correctly, There is one issue however. If an adapter can have only a single frontend, then there will exist another issue:
- Card has dual multi standard frontend(s). - Card has CI cards on both the paths (2 CI controllers) - Card provides scrambled stream as well as descrambled stream (4 simultaneous streams) - Card needs to swap between the CI modules to take advantage of the different modules, rather than reconnecting antenna inputs/manually swapping the CI modules.
Eventually, to handle such a situation: all the nodes exposed to the application has to be under the "same" adapter, rather than as 4 different adapters, of which 2 of them won't have any frontend or ca devices.
Regards, Manu