[vdr] Re: How to setup a 2 card system (a full-featured and a low-budgedca rd)

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Benkesch Harry-Roy wrote:

> i try to set up a vdr system with two dvb-cards.
>  (a full featured and a low budged card)
> I only have one dish and want to use the 
> two card system for timeshifting or recording 
> while watching a film from hdd.
> The 2 cards are found by vdr (var/log/messages).
> If i connect the sat-cable to the low-budget card
> there is no picture on tv. (I thought this is the right way)
It is the right way. But.... (see below)

> If i connect it to the full-featured card i see ntv.
> What changes have to be made in the conf files?
> How to configure which card is first and which one is the second?
You have to edit channels.conf and set the ca parameter for all channels 
only to be received by the low-budget card. Then vdr uses transfer mode 
for live viewing.

> And does it matter which one is first or second?
Yes. You can't use a budget-card as a primary card because it has no 
mpeg2 decoder.



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