Hi, dont kill me please..............
I'm using a 4 Tuner Cine 2 DVB S2 setup for recording TV programs. For playback I was using a DVB-C FF Card, so this was not being used to record as there were no Cable channel entries defined and no cable attached to it. Worked perfectly, but now the DVB C card has broken.
So I need a replacement. But I have multiple FF DVB-S cards laid around here not in use. As the dvbttpci driver is only used for this one card, wouldn't it be possible to patch the driver so that it reports the DVB-S card as a DVB-C card? Maybe even by an optional parameter?
That way I wouldn't need to buy a new DVB-C card.
Stupid idea or not?
Cheers Brian
Why do you need a DVB-C card? You can use the FF DVB-S card for playback (output) only: " -Pdvbsddevice --outputonly "
regards,
István
2013.11.17. 13:09 keltezéssel, Brian-Imap írta:
Hi, dont kill me please..............
I'm using a 4 Tuner Cine 2 DVB S2 setup for recording TV programs. For playback I was using a DVB-C FF Card, so this was not being used to record as there were no Cable channel entries defined and no cable attached to it. Worked perfectly, but now the DVB C card has broken.
So I need a replacement. But I have multiple FF DVB-S cards laid around here not in use. As the dvbttpci driver is only used for this one card, wouldn't it be possible to patch the driver so that it reports the DVB-S card as a DVB-C card? Maybe even by an optional parameter?
That way I wouldn't need to buy a new DVB-C card.
Stupid idea or not?
Cheers Brian
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On 11/17/2013 12:16 PM, Füley István wrote:
Why do you need a DVB-C card? You can use the FF DVB-S card for playback (output) only: " -Pdvbsddevice --outputonly "
regards,
István
2013.11.17. 13:09 keltezéssel, Brian-Imap írta:
Hi, dont kill me please..............
I'm using a 4 Tuner Cine 2 DVB S2 setup for recording TV programs. For playback I was using a DVB-C FF Card, so this was not being used to record as there were no Cable channel entries defined and no cable attached to it. Worked perfectly, but now the DVB C card has broken.
So I need a replacement. But I have multiple FF DVB-S cards laid around here not in use. As the dvbttpci driver is only used for this one card, wouldn't it be possible to patch the driver so that it reports the DVB-S card as a DVB-C card? Maybe even by an optional parameter?
That way I wouldn't need to buy a new DVB-C card.
Stupid idea or not?
Cheers Brian
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OK, I've never heard about this switch. The solution I was using was suggested some time ago by an article in the c't. Due to the Bandwidth of the older FF cards not being enough for simultaneous recording and playback of some transponders.
I'll read up on it and give it a try thanks.
Cheers Brian
I'm also using this solution on one of my vdr clients, but of course there is one limitation: you can only playback MPEG2 recordings, no MPEG4 nor HD.
2013.11.17. 14:04 keltezéssel, Brian-Imap írta:
On 11/17/2013 12:16 PM, Füley István wrote:
Why do you need a DVB-C card? You can use the FF DVB-S card for playback (output) only: " -Pdvbsddevice --outputonly "
regards,
István
2013.11.17. 13:09 keltezéssel, Brian-Imap írta:
Hi, dont kill me please..............
I'm using a 4 Tuner Cine 2 DVB S2 setup for recording TV programs. For playback I was using a DVB-C FF Card, so this was not being used to record as there were no Cable channel entries defined and no cable attached to it. Worked perfectly, but now the DVB C card has broken.
So I need a replacement. But I have multiple FF DVB-S cards laid around here not in use. As the dvbttpci driver is only used for this one card, wouldn't it be possible to patch the driver so that it reports the DVB-S card as a DVB-C card? Maybe even by an optional parameter?
That way I wouldn't need to buy a new DVB-C card.
Stupid idea or not?
Cheers Brian
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OK, I've never heard about this switch. The solution I was using was suggested some time ago by an article in the c't. Due to the Bandwidth of the older FF cards not being enough for simultaneous recording and playback of some transponders.
I'll read up on it and give it a try thanks.
Cheers Brian
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You can also just buy a really cheap VDPAU capable Nvidia video card. For about $25 you can have full HD support using VDPAU hardware decoding.
On 11/17/2013 5:31 PM, VDR User wrote:
You can also just buy a really cheap VDPAU capable Nvidia video card. For about $25 you can have full HD support using VDPAU hardware decoding.
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Thanks but its not that easy. I have a single XBMC which connects to VDR using the XVDR Plugin, and two TVs supplied via a Modulator, they are driven by the output of the FF card. If I just could decide on what light-weight VDR client I should use for those 2 TVs (both used not too often), then the modulator could go and the VDR would be totally headless.
I'm still undecided about what to take.
Currently still only SD due to the modulator.
Cheers Brian
On 11/17/2013 6:27 PM, Brian-Imap wrote:
On 11/17/2013 5:31 PM, VDR User wrote:
You can also just buy a really cheap VDPAU capable Nvidia video card. For about $25 you can have full HD support using VDPAU hardware decoding.
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Thanks but its not that easy. I have a single XBMC which connects to VDR using the XVDR Plugin, and two TVs supplied via a Modulator, they are driven by the output of the FF card. If I just could decide on what light-weight VDR client I should use for those 2 TVs (both used not too often), then the modulator could go and the VDR would be totally headless.
I'm still undecided about what to take.
Currently still only SD due to the modulator.
Cheers Brian
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Well I reinstalled the FF DVB-S card and it works flawlessly as an output device. So thanks very much for that tip.
Bought a Raspberry Pi and am trying that with Openelec, and that seems to work pretty well as a client. Quite a cheap solution.
Cheers Brian
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Bought a Raspberry Pi and am trying that with Openelec, and that seems to work pretty well as a client. Quite a cheap solution.
Cheers Brian
You should also try the "new" rpi output plugin from here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board18-vdr-hardware/board98-arm-co/120344-prototyp... It's a prototype now, but it works pretty stable for me.
István
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