[vdr] Re: VDR 1.2.6 and _new_ driver capabilities (backport to 0.94 driver possible?)

[a.share@t-online.de (Andreas Share)]

> > Hello,
> >
> > you should try to use the old firmware (Root, Dpram) only first. I think
> > most of all problems casued by the firmware. Free TV should work in this
> > way. But you should change two things in av7110.c. Change
"hw_sections=0" to
> > "hw_sections=1", and:
> >
> >  u16 handle;
> > - // u16 mode=0x0320;
> > + u16 mode=0x0320;
> > - u16 mode=0xb96a;
> >
> >  DEB_EE(("av7110: %p\n", av7110));
> >
> >  if (dvbdmxfilter->type == DMX_TYPE_SEC) {
>
>
> Can you explain, what this variable (mode) does?

There are two data (filter) pathes in the firmware. mode= 0xb96a setīs the
newer path, with improvement in bandwidth, and the posibility to record and
playback at the same time with one card. The older firmware doesenīt have
this data path, so you must use the old one (as is used in 0.9.4). In
september 2002 Ralf Metzer announced this "new" firmware, you could look in
the list archive if you like more infoīs. Because the old driver runīs with
hardware section filtering, you should set "hw_sections=1" (but i think
"hw_sections=0" runs also).


> > If you want to use a CI-Interface, note that only a few CIīs work with
the
> > old firmware.
>
> That's no problem for me....
>
> > And you should comment out the two lines from Klausīs mail.
> >
> > I have done some little tests in this way last weekend, free tv works.
>
> Do you know if using the old fw with a newer driver might have any
> other side-effects?

Sorry, i donīs know. I have only doing a very short test. I use vdr-1.3.3 at
the moment, and because the old firmware doesnīt support the link layer
interface i could not switch to any crypted channel any more. I have had no
time to do deeper modifications in vdr (or channel.conf) last weekend.

If this not work and you must doing some more modifications, take a look at
the api (include files), some things have another typo so you must change
this to the old ones.

greetings

Andreas Share



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