[vdr] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 1.0.0pre4 - Time-Trusted Channel

[Usenet-372203@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

a.share@t-online.de(Andreas Share)  17.03.02 23:48

Once upon a time Andreas Share shaped the electrons to say...



>Other choice: vdr switch all cards to the last seen channel...

Jepp.
It would solve (?) the problem for 
those poor poor guys who only have one wire if unused cards are 
tuned to the current "seen channel".

But:
Too it must tune/keep all cards (in such a "single wire system") 
to the polarization which is to be recorded too.



Currently it is not (relyable/easy) possible to record(or more
inconvient- to view) a "v" Channel on a "single wire two card" system.
The user may try to watch or had recently watched a program on "h". 
The voltage for "h" overides the voltage for "v": The v-recording would fail. 
VDR would "panic" but this does not help: Because vdr will tune back
to the "last seen" (remember: this was "h"...) it'll be an endless loop...
a beautiful race...
The current work arround is: 
If a program on "v" is to be recorded, setup so much
timers for that program as cards are in the system. 
The 2,3,4 timers might run only for a few minutes and the recordings
can be deleted instantly.
(haven't tried yet, but IIRC VDR do "forgot" the "last seen" 
channel when allocating the primary interface for a recording.) )

Very complicate is to tune manually to a "v" channel in such a 
"one wire" system: You have to start a record on "v" manually
on all unused cards!