Hi,

I bought a Reddo dvb-c usb card last week and wanted to make it a backup card without a risk of it accidentally tuning into QAM256 channel and spitting out garbage. It seems to be quite good value for money in Finland if you want dvb-c usb card and don't need QAM256.

I followed this conversation through but as it seems there is no support for not using QAM256 in the driver nor in the VDR I decided to make a short patch for VDR.

**WARNING** This patch was written in quite short time and it's not a good example of clean code, but it works (for me) and will be useful for anyone with Reddo card having QAM256 channels. It will be obsolete if/when QAM256 disable is done "the right way" (by asking the driver), but until then... Please try it out and let me know if there is a problem with it.

The patch is available here:

http://tvr.dy.fi/vdr/vdr-1.7.14-DisableReddoQAM256.diff


Teemu


2009/10/29 Petri Helin <phelin@googlemail.com>
Hi,

I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256 modulation. Would it be easy to check FE_CAN_QAM_256 in vdr before trying to use a device to tune to a particular channel? In such a case I could deactivate FE_CAN_QAM_256 in the drivers. I am using VDR 1.7.9, if it makes a difference.

Of course at the moment the proper solution would be to modify the channels.conf to se a preselected card to tune to a particular channel, but in this case there are two drawbacks with it. 1) I have more than one card that I can use for QAM-256 channels and would like to use them all, and 2) channels woth QAM-256 are also encrypted and I have yet to figure out how to set both the CA code and the number of the card in the "Conditional access" parameter in the channels.conf.

Actually now that I think of it... How about separating the explicit card selection and conditional access by introducing a new paremeter in the channels.conf that could be used to preselect the card(s) that can tune to the selected channel?


-Petri

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