Message: 3 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:22:10 +0100 From: Harald Milz hm@seneca.muc.de Subject: [vdr] Hint needed: 3 budget cards and Astra / Hotbird To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: 20061127062210.GA9027@seneca.muc.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,

I recently added a third budget card to my VDR which contained 2 budgets pointing at Astra so far (using softdevice for decoding):

00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 00:0f.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

00:0a.0 Class 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01) 00:0f.0 Class 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01)

/var/log/messages says DVB: registering new adapter (Fujitsu Siemens Activy Budget-S PCI (rev GR/grundig frontend)). DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI).

During my first runs I had connected the third LNB to one of the budgets by just moving one sat cable to the new LNB. I could watch all channels from Astra and Hotbird O.K. The SkyStar2 was not connected so far.

Now adding the SkyStar2 card:

00:0b.0 Class 0280: 13d0:2103 (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 01)

DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).

This card is connected to a LNB pointing at Hotbird. dvbscan shows all the channels on the respecive cards just fine. I generated the channels.conf listing using dvbscan.

But from then on, I could either see the Astra channels or the Hotbird channels within VDR, never both sets at the same time.  It appears as if only card #0 is active (the Activy card), no matter which LNB is connected to which budget card.

What am I missing? As far as I know there is no way (and no point) in telling VDR to use cards #0 and #1 for Astra and #2 for Hotbird. Is that a known problem between (certain versions of) budget/-ci and b2c2 cards / drivers?

Versions:

dvb-1.1.0_CVS20051019-17 (OpenSUSE 10.1) in kernel 2.6.16.13-4-default vdr-1.4.1 softdevice-0.3.1 w/ ffmpeg-0.4.9 / DirectFB-0.9.25.1 / DFB++-0.9.25 / linux-fusion-3.2

Any hint is appreciated!

You ca edit the CA field using the onscreen editopr to specify a card or you can ise the SourceCaps patch. i use both on occasion.

Mike