On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:48:16 +0000 Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
Nice theory, but ti doesn't work in practice for me. With just the DVB-T channels in channels.conf (I haven't got the DVB-S card working yet) and the DVB-S card present I get "Channel unavailable" on every single channel. Without the DVB-S card present VDR can use the DVB-T card.
Could it be a clash because both cards have a Philips SAA7146 chip (they're both Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI models)? If so, this problem only arises if you try to open both cards at once, or it's unique to VDR, because other dvb utils such as scan, tzap and dvbstream do work on the DVB-T card when the DVB-S card is present.
OK, it seems that it was the problem with the DVB-S card that was blocking the DVB-T card too. Once I got the right module installed for the DVB-S's frontend VDR could use the DVB-T card properly.