[vdr] Re: Two DVB-t cards

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Andreas Roedl (AR) wrote:

AR> Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 23:58 schrieb Simon Dean:
AR>
AR> > At the moment I only have an aerial cable for the primary card and the
AR> > budget card has no aerial.
AR>
AR> You should give the second card a cable too! :-)

or at least connect the cable to the second card - so at least you will be
able to use timeshifting...

AR> > This only happens after a few minutes and will lock out keyboard control
AR> > of VDR once it starts.  Is it trying to collect EPG data and if so why
AR> > is it trying to do this on a card that has been set to not use these
AR> > channels?
AR>
AR> Because that's his job! Turn of the automatic EPG scan by setting
AR> "EPGScanTimeout" (Menu/Settings/EPG) to "0".

yes, that's a workaround.

but vdr shouldn't try to tune the second card to a channel which ca
parameter is set to "1", telling that only the first card is able to
receive this channel.

c ya
        Sergei
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