Hi Folks! Klaus!
this is probably something easily answered, and I guess I just missed it somewhere in the docu ... so apologies in andvance ...
I have the following (unusual?) setup (at one location) with two dvb-s cards, one FF, one budget, connected to two different lnbs (i.e. two different sattelites), and I can watch channels on the FF card, and record channels on the budget card (no soft device or similar plugin), but currently the only way to watch channels received on the budget card is to 'pause the live stream', and then continue (which basically is recording and playback on the FF card), I'm pretty sure there must be a better way to accomplish this ...
TIA, Herbert
PS: the setup is ore a test than something permanent ... PPS: thanks for any ideas/suggestions/clues ...
Herbert Poetzl wrote:
Hi Folks! Klaus!
this is probably something easily answered, and I guess I just missed it somewhere in the docu ... so apologies in andvance ...
I have the following (unusual?) setup (at one location) with two dvb-s cards, one FF, one budget, connected to two different lnbs (i.e. two different sattelites), and I can watch channels on the FF card, and record channels on the budget card (no soft device or similar plugin), but currently the only way to watch channels received on the budget card is to 'pause the live stream', and then continue (which basically is recording and playback on the FF card), I'm pretty sure there must be a better way to accomplish this ...
Just set the CA parameters of the channels to the respective devices (1 or 2) and VDR should automatically switch into "Transfer Mode" for channels that can't be received with the FF card.
This is, of course, assuming that you have _one_ VDR instance that controls both devices.
Klaus
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Just set the CA parameters of the channels to the respective devices (1 or 2) and VDR should automatically switch into "Transfer Mode" for channels that can't be received with the FF card.
One silly question more. What really is "transfer mode"?
Regards, SK
Suur Karu wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Just set the CA parameters of the channels to the respective devices (1 or 2) and VDR should automatically switch into "Transfer Mode" for channels that can't be received with the FF card.
One silly question more. What really is "transfer mode"?
That's what VDR does if the primary device (the one with the MPEG decoder that has your tv connected to it) can't receive a specific channel. If an other device can receive that channel (maybe because it has a CAM and can decrypt it), VDR "transfers" the data from that device to the primary device for live viewing.
Klaus
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:15:24PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Suur Karu wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Just set the CA parameters of the channels to the respective devices (1 or 2) and VDR should automatically switch into "Transfer Mode" for channels that can't be received with the FF card.
sorry that I didn't get back earlier, but I had no chance to test it before yesterday, and I can report, it works as expected :)
thanks a lot for the hint! (sidenote: something like the SourceCaps patch would be very useful for vdr)
One silly question more. What really is "transfer mode"?
That's what VDR does if the primary device (the one with the MPEG decoder that has your tv connected to it) can't receive a specific channel. If an other device can receive that channel (maybe because it has a CAM and can decrypt it), VDR "transfers" the data from that device to the primary device for live viewing.
would it be possible to use that "transfer mode" to link several VDRs across hosts? i.e. have several machines with a number of DVBs cards, which basically act as a single vdr machine?
thanks, Herbert
Klaus
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Herbert Poetzl wrote: ...
would it be possible to use that "transfer mode" to link several VDRs across hosts? i.e. have several machines with a number of DVBs cards, which basically act as a single vdr machine?
I like this idea. Would it not be nice if I could simply put all my DVB cards into one (big, loud, ugly) VDR server machine in the attic close to the dish and still use vdr on all PCs in the network in exactly the same way?
If a machine cannot receive a particular channel, it should still allow me to watch it (just find a machine in the network that can zap to that channel without interrupting anything).
If a machine cannot record a particular channel, it should still allow me to program a timer (just forward it to a machine in the network that can record it).
Is there a plugin already that does this kind of stuff?
If not, I wonder if it would be hard to do.
Would it not be enough to simply forward timer entries to the server via SVDRP and do everything else via NFS? Even live viewing can be implemented this way, simply by creating a temporary timer and playing back on the client machine what the server has just recorded.
Carsten.
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