[vdr] Re: how much dvb-devices needed?

[Andreas Vierengel <avierengel@gatrixx.com>]

Am Die, 2003-07-15 um 19.00 schrieb Christoph Liersch:
> Andreas Vierengel wrote:
> 
> > Same problem on my setup.
> > Using hauppauges nexus-s rev 2.1 and nova-ci rev 1.0.
> > I thought I can record both on horizontal and vertical simultaneously and
> > additionally watch every channel I want, with 1 full-featured and 1 budget
> > card ?
> > Both inputs are connected to the same sat-multiswitch...
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but two cards, two tuners... I can only
> see this working when both channels being recorded are on the same
> transponder (i.e., handled by a single card).
> 
> If you're recording channels from two different transponders (polarization
> doesn't really matter), both cards will be in use. This limits the choice of
> available channels to channels on the same transponder the primary card is
> currently recording from (or in the best case, to the two transponders the
> cards are already recording from - no idea if transfer mode would work in
> this scenario).
> 

Hmm, that's the missing point I had. I don't know anymore where I read this polarization thing, but I definetly misunderstood this.
I sorted my channels.conf according to transponder-frequency and it proofs my "problem".
Now I know why the hell some of you have more than 2 cards :)
Maybe it's time for another Nova for me ...

Thanks for your help !!

--Andi



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