[vdr] Re: Card Handling

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Falk Spitzberg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this saturday, I ran into an interesting situation. I have twi DVB-S
> cards in my VDR system, that where connected to different outlets. Due
> to heavy snowfall the signal was too low to receive anything on the
> primary card. The secondary card worked fine (obviously better
> connection), but due to the tuning problem on the primary card, VDR kept
> restarting until I was able to switch to an encrypted channel where the
> secondary card is needed.
> 
> Would it be posible to keep VDR running as long as there is ONE working
> card? A warning that card X is not working would be nice too.

VDR only restarts if it NEEDS to use that card. Of course, you can
disable that by removing the "emergency exit" calls, but then VDR
wouldn't be able to restart in case of a driver failure, too.

Klaus
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