[vdr] Re: Two tv's connected to one vdr-mashine

["Matthias Raus" <matthias-raus_vdr@web.de>]

> Hi 
> 
> Do you think this is the best way ? 
> 
> If you start 2 VDR instances with the 2 Full Featured DVB-S cards 
> each card bind itselve to one VDR- instance. 
> 
> So each VDR only is able to use 1 CARD and also Recording and Watching 
> a other Movie the same time can be a problem. 
 
I don't exactly understand what you mean. I have two full featured DVB-S 1.3  
cards. Binding each card to one VDR instance is exactly what I want, as the  
output of the DVB shall be shown on two different TV sets.  
Do you mean that the DVB driver cannot handle two instances of VDR running at  
the same time with all features? Maybe, I haven't tested that, but heard it  
would be possible...  
 
Matthias 
 
> 
> I think the best way is this Solution: 
> 
> 1 DVB-S Full Featured CARD 
> 1 DVB-S NOVA 
> 1 DXR3 CARD 
> 
> So 2 Different People have access to 2 independend VDRīs and they 
> can use both CARDīs at same Time. 
> 
> But the Best thing is that such a System can be updatet with a secodn 
> DVB-S NOVA CARD and in this configuration itīs realy powerfull ! 
> 
> Best Regards 
> 
> Axel 
> 
> > Hi! 
> > 
> > this is exactly what I am planning, too. I want to run two DVB-cards in 
> > the same PC and watch 
> > different channels on either of the cards. I have found out that some 
> > people already have realized 
> > this. Obviously, it is only necessary to load the DVB driver once and 
> > after that start two instances 
> > of vdr with VDR1 and VDR2 using different video- and config-directories. 
> > A person working at the 
> > heise magazine has written a runvdr-script for three vdr-instances; I 
> > have modified this a bit in 
> > order to work with only 2 instances, but I don't if it will work yet. 
> > Could anyone of you look over it 
> > and tell me if this will work that way? I also don't understand what the 
> > "Endlos-Schleife" does 
> > exactly, as I am not a script-guru...here is the code, thank you in 
> > advance: 
> > 
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh 
> > # 
> > # copyright Juergen Schmidt, c't magazin 
> > # 
> > # Licence: GPL 
> > # 
> > # call  ./runvdr [vdr-dir] [port1] [port2] 
> > # 
> > 
> > 
> > # VARIABLEN 
> > TVDIR=/usr/local/src 
> > 
> > VDRDIR=${1:-$TVDIR/VDR} 
> > PORT1=${2:-2001} 
> > PORT2=${3:-2002} 
> > 
> > VDRPRG="$VDRDIR/vdr" 
> > DVBDIR="/usr/local/src/DVB/driver" 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ## BEFEHLE ZUM STARTEN DER JEWEILIGEN VDR-INSTANZEN 
> > 
> > # VDR-Instanz 1 
> > 
> > VDR1CMD="$VDRPRG -d -w 60 -p $PORT1 -D 0 -v /video1 -c 
> > /usr/local/vdr/etc1 -E /video1/ 
> > epg.data -t /dev/tty8" 
> > 
> > # VDR-Instanz 2 
> > 
> > VDR2CMD="$VDRPRG -d -w 60 -p $PORT2 -D 1 -v /video2 -c 
> > /usr/local/vdr/etc2 -E /video2/ 
> > epg.data -t /dev/tty9" 
> > 
> > ALIVE1="/bin/fuser -sn tcp $PORT1" 
> > ALIVE2="/bin/fuser -sn tcp $PORT2" 
> > 
> > # alternatives 
> > #ALIVE1="echo 'quit' | nc localhost $PORT1" 
> > #ALIVE1="/bin/fuser -sn file /dev/ost/frontend0" 
> > 
> > 
> > echo "==================" 
> > echo " external Restart " 
> > echo "==================" 
> > 
> > 
> > # Startet den LIRC-Daemon 
> > /usr/local/sbin/lircd & 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > # Endlos-Schleife 
> > while (true) do 
> >       echo "--------------" 
> >       echo -n "Starting VDR: "; date 
> >       # SIND DIE DVB-TREIBER BEREITS GELADEN? 
> >       LSMOD="`/sbin/lsmod | grep -w '^dvb' | wc -l`" 
> >       if [ $LSMOD -eq 0 ] ; then 
> > 	echo "Loading DVB drivers" 
> > 	(cd $DVBDIR; make insmod) > /dev/null 2>&1 
> >       fi 
> >       $VDR1CMD; $VDR2CMD 
> >       sleep 30 
> > 
> >       RESTART=0 
> > 
> >       while [ $RESTART -eq 0 ] ; do 
> > 
> > 	sleep 30 
> > 
> > 	if ( ! $ALIVE1 ) ; then 
> > 	    echo -n "VDR 1 died (restarting): "; date 
> > 	    # try to restart process 
> > 	    $VDR1CMD 
> > 	    sleep 5 
> > 	    if ( ! $ALIVE1 ) ; then 
> > 		RESTART=1 
> > 		echo "Restart failed - shutting down" 
> > 	    fi 
> > 	fi 
> > 
> > 	if ( ! $ALIVE2 && [ $RESTART -eq 0 ] ) ; then 
> > 	    echo -n "VDR 2 died (restarting): "; date 
> > 	    $VDR2CMD 
> > 	    sleep 5 
> > 	    if ( ! $ALIVE2 ) ; then 
> > 		RESTART=1 
> > 		echo "Restart failed - shutting down" 
> > 	    fi 
> > 	fi 
> > 
> > 	if [ $RESTART -eq 1 ] ; then 
> > 	    echo "- - - - - - - -" 
> > 	    echo -n "VDR died: "; date 
> > 	    # einige Debugging-Informationen 
> > 	    /bin/fuser -vn tcp $PORT1 $PORT2 
> > 	    # ps auxw | grep vdr 
> > 	    dmesg | grep dvb | tail -4 
> > 	    killall -TERM vdr 
> > 	    sleep 5 
> > 	    killall -9 vdr 
> > 	    (cd $DVBDIR; make rmmod) > /dev/null 2>&1 
> > 	fi 
> >     done 
> > done 
> > 
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