[vdr] Re: Sky Plugin?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Gavin Hamill wrote:
> 
> Hallo :)
> 
> This one's aimed mainly at Klaus, but I'm certainly open to takers =)
> 
> I'm trying to use the sky plugin which opens /dev/video2 and and reads a
> Transport Stream.
> 
> At present, the Nova-T card is in another machine, so I'm running only with a
> Dxr3....
> 
> My channels.conf is just a single line:
> 
> EXT TEST:106:h:S28.2E:0:160:80:0:301:222:0:0:0
> 
> I've made a FIFO for /dev/video2,  and the Transport Stream I've been
> 'cat'ing to /dev/video2 was generated from a previous VDR recording and
> 'pes2ts2' . Using 'tspids' confirms that there are PIDs of 80 and 160 in the
> file, and if I extract PID 160 to an ES, and send that to /dev/em8300_mv, the
> video is perfect.
> 
> I've tried this with vdr 1.1.16 and 1.1.20 with the same results..
> 
> $ ./vdr -Pdxr3 -Psky 2>&1 | grep video
> 
> I've verified in the Setup => Plugins menu that the Sky plugin is loaded OK,
> but when I select channel 1, I'm told 'Channel not available!' and I cannot
> see anything in the output that's trying to open /dev/video2 :/
> 
> I don't understand the problem, because I have had this working before, and I
> can't honestly believe that not having the Nova-T installed is the difference!
> 
> Any ideas?

Your problem is most likely that the device numbers have changed by removing the Nova-T.
Check the settings in "Setup/CICAM".

Klaus
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