[vdr] Re: Can vdr work without antenna? (play recordings)

[Dennis Noordsij <dennis.noordsij@movial.fi>]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 19:34, Guido Fiala wrote:
> Am Tuesday 02 March 2004 17:09 schrieb Dennis Noordsij:
> > I use a DVB-C without a signal as the tv-out card, with the video coming
> > from a streamdev server.
> >
> > I changed the scripts to NOT load the frontend module for this card
> > (ves1820), you then need to modify VDR a little to check for the presence
> > of a DVB card not by /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 or something like that,
> > but for example /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0. The card can now be used for
> > output etc, but nothing will try to tune it.
> >
> > I don't know if this is absolutely necessary but I have read many stories
> > like yours where a card does not like to run without a signal, and this
> > way it works for me at least.
>
> Can you send a diff for this modification? I would like to try it here with
> my DVB-s if it would work...
>
> Guido


Here comes a patch. Note that I am not sure what happens if you have satellite 
channels in your channels.conf (in my case all channels are DVB-T so VDR does 
not try to use the DVB-C tuner. So if possible, remove all DVB-S channels 
from your channels.conf).




--- ./dvbdevice.c.orig  2003-11-09 13:08:22.000000000 +0200
+++ ./dvbdevice.c       2004-03-02 19:48:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
   int i;
   for (i = 0; i < MAXDVBDEVICES; i++) {
       if (UseDevice(NextCardIndex())) {
-         if (Probe(DvbName(DEV_DVB_FRONTEND, i))) {
+         if (Probe(DvbName(DEV_DVB_DEMUX, i)) || 
(Probe(DvbName(DEV_DVB_FRONTEND, i)))) {
             new cDvbDevice(i);
             found++;
             }







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