Rainer Zocholl wrote:
until he learned that every card in the system MUST have a -good- antenna signal, regardless if the card is used or not... because EPG scan would use every card and that VDR behaves -unexpectable- sick without -good- antenna signals.
I cannot confirm that. My VDR always had strange tuning problems that are caused by mysterious hardware problems (including some time on VDR 1.4.7), so having no signal on DVB-S is not un-typical for my system. I also had no issues while experimenting with DVB-T - which typically includes having no signal. ;)
I never had a restart due to EPG scan (at least not directly *), and a missing signal for live viewing never caused more than a black screen. I never had ARM crashes because of signal quality. Restarts only happened for me if a recording got no signal.
(* I had some times where tuning card 1 to channel X because of EPG scan would cause the recording card 0 to loose signal)
Cheers,
Udo