[vdr] Re: Questions from new VDR user

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Otto J. Makela wrote:
> 
> Is there a known problem with VDR which manifests as encrypted
> channels disappearing from the VDRadmin "What's on" main menu? When I
> leave the thing alone for the night (my main computer's always on) and
> come back in the morning, there probably are no encrypted channels
> showing up in this menu. If I restart VDR (which I've arranged to
> unload and reload the kernel modules) the channels slowly reappear in
> this menu.

This "problem" arises from the fact, that the epg info for a channel can
only be read when you tune to the transponder the channel is on. So if
you dont watch a specific channel for some time vdr will "run out" of
cached epg info leading to the described symptoms.
You can adjust the "EPG-Scan Timeout" in the VDRs settings menu.

 
> Is the data stream VDR writes to disk the complete original
> off-the-cable stream, or has it been pruned down to a single sound
> channel? There are a couple of channels (like Cartoon Network, don't
> laugh!) which are transmitted by the cable company as a strange mess
> with swedish/norwegian as the right and left main channels with the
> original english soundtrack (which I want) on the left in a secondary
> audio channel with danish as the right channel. These are somehow
> mislabeled in the DVB stream, so that my external digital receiver
> treats them as left and right instead of mono streams -- or something
> like that. So, does VDR write all the audio channels into the saved
> file (playing around with Xine doesn't seem to find any, at least) or
> does only the "main" channel get recorded? Can I adjust this, or
> should I lobby the cable company to get this "feature" fixed?
> 

You should slap your cable company. What they do is the "good old(tm)"
version of multichannel sound.
This has nothing in common with multiple sound channels as they are
defined for DVB.
IIRC there was a discussion about this some time ago on this list (you
can find archives on linuxtv.org).

Ciao Ulrich



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