Hi,
Manu Abraham schrieb:
The patched version doesn't look at the device capability flags, before issuing a tune ? Or is something else wrong/missing ?
I must admit, I didn't have a look at the source code so far, but from what I recall, I don't think that it is that easy. I think, a simple check will only make VDR tell you that the channel in question cannot be received.
I've experienced myself that VDR used the DVB-S2 card for a DVB-S recording and then endlessly tried to switch to a DVB-S2 channel using the DVB-S card -- obviously without success.
How can you ask a DVB-S device to tune to DVB-S2 ? Poor demodulator, it has to do what it is not even capable of. :)
VDR's device selection logic is already quite complex. It has to deal with FF cards which have so far been used to watch the DVB-S channels, cards which provide CI interfaces and simple receiver cards. Moreover it now would have to deal with cards capable of doing DVB-S2, with or without CI interface respectively.
The logic wouldn't be much different. It is the same as requesting a DVB-C device to be tuned to DVB-S. The CI interface doesn't make the hardware look any different.
As I'm only distributing the DVB-S2 part which Marco Schlüßler provided several months ago, I've contacted him and asked him for an update.
Ok, I will ask Marco on the relevant. Thanks for the feedback.
Well, I was in contact with Marco already and attached you'll find a minimalistic change which reports "channel not available". Now VDR should already be able to kick a low priority DVB-S recording (or transfer thread) from a DVB-S2 device.
Still missing is to prefer DVB-S devices for DVB-S recordings so that DVB-S2 devices remain available for DVB-S2 recordings of same priority.
The patch is incremental to the original dvbs2 patch from yesterday, i. e. you can simply apply it to your already patched VDR.
Bye.