[vdr] Re: Two cards, two recordings, bad signal on one = twobroken recordings

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:11, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 04:56 schrieben Sie:
> >
> > Perhaps priorities could be used to decide "don't restart to try to fix
> > a lower priority recording if a higher priority recording is going
> > fine".
> 
> The reason VDR restarts is the unreliable DVB-driver. As it used to crash very 
> often, VDR restarts to reload it. But VDR doesn't know if the driver has 
> crashed or if there's just no reception. We've discussed this with Klaus very 
> often, but he didn't want to change the code.
> 
> VDR does NOT provide QoS!
> 
> >
> > (* I have a long standing problem with my sat feed.  This is a C-Band
> > dish and not even my standalone receiver can receive vertical signals.
> > On top of that the Nova-S card can only receive horizontal signals if
> > the standalone box is powered up AND tuned to a horizontal transponder.
> > I have my nova-s connected to the loopback of the standalone box.  The
> > problem is if the kids change the channel on the standalone box or the
> > standalone box crashes I loose my signal on the nova-s! I think my LNB
> > needs replacing)
> 
> No, I think you should drop your standalone box to connect the Nova-S 
> directly.

I have tried that and it does not work.  I guess I should check the
voltage from the Nova-S however, given the fact that the LNB does not
seem to do vertical transponders at all...

> What for do you need the standalone box?

At the moment I need it to make the Nova-S work ;)  If the card worked
by itself then I would not need it at all.

> 
> Rene
> 



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