Martin Dauskardt wrote:
I upgraded to 1.4.1-4, which seems to include the patch from Anssi (http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-August/010360.html )
I am not happy with this patch: My machine has a FF-card and Budget-Card+CAM. There was no timer for any encrypted channel programmed. All active timers were set for ARD. I had absolutely no plans to watch Premiere, I was not even at home :-) But all recordings were done with the FF card. vdr started with the ARD channel, and the well known performance problem of FF cards resulted in bad recordings (buffer usage ... /clearing).
Interesting. So there was just one channel recording and the FF card already run out of bandwidth?
Do you use a recent (like newer than 1 year) DVB driver and firmware?
You see, I want the the opposite than the original poster asked for. For me it is more important to get good recordings than to be able to switch to an encrypted channel why recording another one. So I want vdr to always use the Budget card for recordings.Can this be done in any way without patching vdr? Is there any solution I don`t see? (Of course I don´t want to hardcode every channel in channels.conf to the Budget card. I still want to be able to make two FTA-recordings on different frequencies.)
I think the best solution would be to make this configurable in DVB settings or in timer menu so that the user can select the DVB card he wants to use for the recording.
Unless Klaus comes up with something smart we didn't thought, there are few possibilities to resolve this by adding a config option: a) selection of the preferred card for recordings b) alternatively, a list of preferred cards in order of priority c) or a bool value to select whether to prefer Budget-CI or FF
The resulting new rule in GetDevice() should be placed between the "lowest priority" check and the "lowest CA" check.