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!
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:22:10AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote:
Hi,
I recently added a third budget card to my VDR which contained 2 budgets pointing at Astra so far (using softdevice for decoding): ... 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: ... 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?
What you're missing is "soucecaps" patch, it tells vdr which card can see which satellite.
There's patch for 1.3.39 which applies OK for 1.4.x too: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-January/007356.html
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:16:55PM +0200, Antti Hartikainen wrote:
What you're missing is "soucecaps" patch, it tells vdr which card can see which satellite.
Wow this works great. It should be in the standard vdr distro!
Thanks!
Ciao, Harald
PS: I missed your answer - sorry for the second inquiry.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:22:10AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote:
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.
I removed the SS2 from the system today, and it seems something went seriously haywire. Only card #0 is usable for receiving data. When I connect an LNB (no matter which one) to card #1 with #0 open, no image is displayed. I can still scan the whole range using dvbscan just fine. With an Astra LNB connected to card #0 and Hotbird to #1, I get messages like
Nov 27 21:38:11 linvdr vdr: [3269] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212500 Nov 27 21:40:37 linvdr vdr: [3269] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1438, tp 110773 Nov 27 21:40:58 linvdr vdr: [3269] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1439, tp 110832
No matter which LNB I connect to card #0 (FSC Activy), the respective program is displayed just fine. No matter which LNB I connect to cards #1 (WinTV-CI) or #2 (SS2), nothing is displayed, and I get the tuning errors shown above. The SS2 is a rev 2.6C if that helps.
Huh???
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Antti Hartikainen -
Harald Milz