[vdr] Re: vdr-1.3.1 autopid observations

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

Martin Neuditschko wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > >Was this the "one and only" NIT that was broadcast?
> > >Meaning: did you wait for a while in case another (different)
> > >NIT would come? I'm asking because Martin Neuditschko's case
> > >there are several different NITs on one transponder, all with
> > >different frequency settings, and we haven't figured out yet
> > >how to tell which one is the valid one.
> > >
> > >Since I have no way of debugging this here (I ave no cable)
> > >I'm afraid you'll have to look further into this yourself to find out
> > >where exactly something is not happening as expected.
> > >
> > >Klaus
> >
> > Yes, this was the only output.
> 
> I don't know, but probably this is interesting: In my case I had to
> restart vdr (and everytime change the channels.conf to its initial
> state) several times until I get more NIT-blocks (I don't know a better
> name for it). The first time I get 2 such NIT-blocks, next 3 or 4 times
> I get only 1 NIT-block and at the 5th or 6th try I get several
> NIT-blocks (approximately every second one)

Please make sure you set "Update channels" to a value less than 4, otherwise
VDR will modify the transponder settings and you may never see the other NITs
(if there are any).

Klaus


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