[vdr] Re: Help VDR works but no output

["Jonathan Meads" <jonathan.meads@talbotuw.com>]

excellent - thanks for your help



-----Original Message-----
From: Emil Naepflein [mailto:Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de]
Sent: 21 December 2001 5:01 pm
To: vdr@linuxtv.org
Subject: [vdr] Re: Help VDR works but no output


On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:11:10 -0000, "Jonathan Meads"
<jonathan.meads@talbotuw.com> wrote:

> I have some problems with vdr, I have a Hauppauge DVB-s and a Hauppauge
> Nova-t PCI card. I am using the latest DVB driver (not the CVS one) which
> installed fine, VDR compiles and runs however I have a few problems.
> 
> I get no output - in the syslog I get the errors "illegal video device
> handle (-1)!" and "channel # not sync'ed on DVB card 2!" "retrying".

Your channels.conf file is wrong. Change the index for the DVB-t
channels to 1.

> The setup.conf file is as per the default, the channels.conf file I took
of
> Dave Chapmans web site and I removed the satellite channels leaving only
the
> DVB-t channels. (I'm in East London)

Again, change the index to 1.

> 
> How do I know that the DVB-s card is the primary card ? is there a way to
> check if its the primary card ?

Go to setup OSD and select 0 for the primary. You may also look into
/var/log/messages and get some hints.

Emil




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