Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger) 19.06.05 12:12
Well, I still believe that the majority of systems will have only one LNB,
The adavntage why i still use (the meanwhile relativley expensive) VDR is it's ability to use up to four cards, mixed(!) DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-T. No commerical can do that (and will never, i assume). But they usualy have a clean "resource management" which i am missing at VDR.
anyway, and any reasonable multi-LNB system should use a multiswitch.
AFAIK there approx. 100 downloads of the LNBsharing patch for 1.3.x. As it is of very limited (actually no, as VDR already "locks" the LNB in a single card system) use for the SingleLNB guys i assume there are at least 50 users in that unlucky situation, to have only one wire, which can ONLY be solved with VDR, AFAIK.
Affordable "Single-Wire-Solutions" are no solution - they will block many transponders.
There is a list of the most dangerous things in the world, two i rember: "A softworker with a solder iron" and: "A software with a hardware patch".
The second fits your suggestion to fix missing the resource managent with a mulit-switch ;-).
And: On Motor dishes a mulit-switch will not help much.
Too recently some asked if VDR is so clever that in a two card system DVB-S and DVB-T will chosse the transmission on the other system if the program is avaible on both...
I assume that should be solved from the ground and not by separate "patches". Else it will be an endless story.
Ooops, i forgot to mention the "CA"-resources...
Rainer