[vdr] Re: Two card question for VDR, other problem...

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

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just bought a second Hauppauge DVB-s (also rev 1.3) and got some
> strange errors in the logs:
> 
> Apr 14 19:01:42 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 3 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:01:42 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:01:42 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 3 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:01:42 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:03:43 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 15 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:03:43 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:03:45 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 15 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:03:45 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:03:48 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 15 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:05:47 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 20 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:05:47 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:05:49 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 20 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:05:49 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:05:52 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 20 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:05:52 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:06:58 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 43 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:06:58 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:07:00 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 43 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!Apr 14 19:07:00 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:07:03 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 43 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:07:03 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:08:11 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 73 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:08:11 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:08:13 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 73 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:08:13 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:08:16 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 73 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:08:16 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:09:48 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 123 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:09:48 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:09:51 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 123 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:09:51 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:09:53 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 123 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:09:53 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:10:17 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 136 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:10:17 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:10:19 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 136 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:10:19 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> Apr 14 19:10:22 localhost vdr[2139]: ERROR: channel 136 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Apr 14 19:10:22 localhost vdr[2139]: retrying
> ...
> 
> I have a DiseqC 2.0 which is connected to the first connected card
> (which I think is the 2 in VDR, and in kvdr). The second card is
> connected to the looptrough of the first one.
> I could understand such errors with different polarization/dishes, but
> for example, my six first channels have ...:v:0:... and the one I just
> watch has ...:v:1:...
> 
> Do I have to make something special?

I assume this is the EPG scanner trying to switch channels on your secondary card.
You can disable this by setting "Setup/EPG/EPG scan timeout" to 0.

> I am using vdr-1.0.0 and DVD nav8 patch.
> 
> And another small question: is it simple to watch simultaneously two
> programm? With a combinaison of vdr/kvdr/xawtv (I could do it with kvdr
> to watch, if I change the DVB in vdr to set the channel on one DVB and
> the to the other: not so conveniant...).

I assume that there will be two separate tv sets connected to the two
DVB cards then, so I guess it might be best to start two instances of VDR,
each using one of the cards (see the '-D' option).

Klaus
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