[vdr] Re: Horizontal channels again

[Joerg Riechardt <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:

> Am Fre, 2002-06-28 um 21.28 schrieb Steffen Koch:
> > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:16:03 +0200, Joerg Riechardt wrote:
> >
> > >> NOW I'm totally confused... My girlfriend came back from Karlsruhe from
> > >> her studies and suggested that I just try to record something on one of
> > >> the not visible horizontal channels. I thought, ok why not. And what a
> > >> surprise It recorded without failure and I could watch the recorded
> > >> piece without any error. So now I can record a program but do no live
> > >> watching. Timeshift also works well....
> > >Would be interesting what happens if you change the cards.
> > Whart do you mean with change the cards?? Exchange them in the slots,
> > or exchange them with other cards?? or exchange the primary with
> > another?
> >
>
> If you can't watch live but record, it seems that the additional cards
> (who do the recording) work on horizontal, but not the primary used for
> live-watching. As you claimed you exchanged the wiring to the LNB, it
> seems your primary card has a fault (the DVB-S do not exactly generate
> 22 khz but about 24 khz, maybe your LNB accepted that signal, but heat
> or aging could have changed the values of a resistor, etc. on the card).
>
> So you should exchange the primary with another DVB-S. If the upper
> theory is right, live-watching should work but no recording on your
> former primary.
>
> You should also check if a 22 khz signal is generated by the DVB-S when
> switching.
>
> Rene

horizontal doesn't depend on 22kHz, but highband does, thats not the point here

Jörg