[vdr] Re: VDR prefers my CI DVB device for recordings and blocks it unnecessarily

[Klaus Schmidinger]

Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>> In this particular case I guess the recording really shouldn't
>>> start on the primary card, because the osdteletext plugin isn't
>>> a "real" recording process.
>>>
>>> So how shall we distinguish between cReceivers that do actual
>>> recordings and such that just receive, e.g., teletext data?
>>> Or those that receive a radio channel for streaming it to
>>> a remote client? Where's the limit?
>> Hm, every cReceiver which doesn't receive critical data has -1 priority.
>> The only exception is the transfer-mode, which has -1 too.
> 
> And here's the patch.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff -Nurp -x '*~' vdr-1.4.1-5/device.c vdr-1.4.1-5-mod/device.c
> --- vdr-1.4.1-5/device.c	2006-08-20 21:59:20.000000000 +0300
> +++ vdr-1.4.1-5-mod/device.c	2006-08-23 18:41:26.000000000 +0300
> @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ cDevice *cDevice::GetDevice(const cChann
>           // to their individual severity, where the one listed first will make the most
>           // difference, because it results in the most significant bit of the result.
>           uint imp = 0;
> -         imp <<= 1; imp |= !device[i]->Receiving(true) || ndr;                     // use receiving devices if we don't need to detach existing receivers
> +         imp <<= 1; imp |= !device[i]->Receiving() && device[i] != cTransferControl::ReceiverDevice() || ndr; // use receiving devices if we don't need to detach existing receivers
>           imp <<= 1; imp |= device[i]->Receiving();                                 // avoid devices that are receiving
>           imp <<= 1; imp |= device[i] == cTransferControl::ReceiverDevice();        // avoid the Transfer Mode receiver device
>           imp <<= 8; imp |= min(max(device[i]->Priority() + MAXPRIORITY, 0), 0xFF); // use the device with the lowest priority (+MAXPRIORITY to assure that values -99..99 can be used)

Wouldn't this also avoid a non-primary device if the transfer mode
is coming from there? I don't think that would be good...

Klaus