[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.1.3

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2002-06-17 um 20.14 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> Carsten Koch wrote:
> > 
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > ...
> > > - It is now possible to record several channels on the same transponder with "budget
> > >   cards". VDR automatically attaches a recording timer to a card that already
> > >   records on the appropriate transponder. How many parallel recordings can actually
> > >   be done depends on the computer's performance. Currently any number of recordings
> > >   gets attached to a card, so you should carefully plan your timers to not exceed
> > >   the limit. On a K6-II/450 it was possible to record three channels from transponder
> > >   12480 with a single WinTV NOVA-S.
> > 
> > IIRC, it has been mentioned here (or on the dvb list), that a
> > full DVB-S card can also record more than one channel, just not
> > all channels on one transponder, as the budget card can.
> > Is this true or am I imagining it?
> 
> My first experiments in that area were done with a full featured card,
> and I was pretty happy to see that I could record several channels on
> transponder 12188 (the "RTL" transponder) that way. However, when I
> tried the same with transponder 12480 (Sat.1), the recordings showed
> some heavy distortions. Ralph means that maybe the data on the Sat.1
> transponder is multiplexed differently than the one on the RTL transponder,
> so that the first one works, while the second one doesn't.
> 
> There is also another problem: you can't record the channel that is currently
> being viewed and at the same time record others on the same transponder.
> Apparently there are very big chunks of data from the viewed channel, which
> causes problems with the other channels' streams.
> 
> I therefore made it so that a full featured card will only record one
> channel (although you _can_ do overlapping recordings with such cards, too).
> Apparently those "budget" cards are the ideal "secondary" cards for a VDR
> system - unless you want to use a CAM, which only works with a full featured
> card.
> 
> Maybe somebody can continue these experiments and will find a way to do
> multiple recordings even with full featured cards...
> 

The problem certainly is the firmware, which we can't debug. So I
propagate a low-budget-DXR3/4-solution which will come true with the new
API-structure.

Rene

P.S.: Sell your DVB-S when DXR3-output is available.
Low-budgets have no ARM crashes ... :o)