Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:14:08 +0200 From: Thomas Netousek tkn@netousek.com Subject: Re: [vdr] Analog TV plugin

Hi Martin,

first of all thanks for your work ! I am using the HVR1900 which has a DVB-T and an analog part purely for the capturing from analog. I am using the pvrusb2 driver from kernel 2.6.29. This version has two configuration options:

• pvrusb2 sysfs support (EXPERIMENTAL)
• pvrusb2 ATSC/DVB support (EXPERIMENTAL)

I am disabling the ATSC/DVB support and I get a /dev/video[0,1,2] instead of /dev/dvb/adapter[0,1,2]

I discussed this issue in the pvrusb2 ML:

http://www.isely.net/pipermail/pvrusb2/2009-July/002493.html

and suggested a possible solution:

http://www.isely.net/pipermail/pvrusb2/2009-July/002495.html

Would be fine if you could try if this works when "pvrusb2 ATSC/DVB support" is enabled. If you have no other DVB device than the pvrusb2, than I wonder if VDR would accept a not existing - D option.

Example: modprobe pbrusb2 adapter_nr=9 vdr -D 0 -Ppvrinput

Will vdr fail to start, because the selected dvb adapter is not found? Or will vdr start like there is no DVB device? Note: Maybe you need the dummydevice plugin to get vdr started without any DVB devices.

You are right that I cannot switch easily between DVB-T and analog, but I do not have that requirement.

It should be possible to start a small script via commands.conf, which stops vdr, unloads pvrusb2, reloads it with a different adapter_nr, and restarts vdr with a -D option which allows the usage of the pvrusb2 DVB-T part. This way one could switch between analogue and DVB usage by restarting vdr via OSD.

So actually I can confirm that pvrinput and pvrusb2 not only work with one adapter, but with three - and there seems to be no limit.

Do you have three pvrusb2 devices? wow. pvrinput supports a maximum of 8 devices

Greets, Martin