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

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

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:00, Gregor Lawatscheck wrote:
> Guido Fiala wrote:
> >>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.
>
> What revision is your full featured card out of interest? It should
> prompt this when loading the modules.


Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem c283e000 (revision 1, irq 10) (0x110a,0x0000).
DVB: registering new adapter (Siemens cable card PCI rev1.5).
Siemens cable card PCI rev1.5 adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:xxxxxxxxxxx
DVB: AV7110(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261a
DVB: AV7110(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface
av7110(0): DVB-C w/o analog module detected
videodev: "av7110" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for proper 
sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/
saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2]
av7110: found av7110-0.



> > Can you send a diff for this modification? I would like to try it here
> > with my DVB-s if it would work...
>
> LoL *smack on head* heureka - if that works that'd be great news indeed
> for all rev 1.3. / rev. 1.5 users who want to use it for replay only /
> DVB-T transfer mode . Sometimes solutions seem so easy - why didn't we
> think about this one before?  I really hope this workaround turns out to
> make a difference.

Let us know!


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