[vdr] Re: FF + Budget as a Team ?

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

Arnd Kohrs wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a Full-Feature card with a suposely broken tuner (only tunes to
> some channels and only sporadically).  However the decoding/display
> part works fine.
>
> In order to get the tuning part fixed I added a SkyStar2 card
> (budget->no decoder) to my system.
>
> So the FF-card is the first device and the Skystar2 is the second DVB
> device.  I have hooked the Sat-dish to the SkyStar2 and the FF is
> unconnected.
>
> Now, when I run my vdr-1.3.12, it does not tune to channels (black
> screen), however the OSD works fine. (I am using a scan genereated
> channel list for SkyStar2).
>
> I guess that VDR tries to tune the channels on the first device, which
> is not possible, or it tunes to the channel on the second card, but
> does not decode the stream with the first card.
>
> It has happened in my experimentation that I select a channel, record
> this channel ([F1]), and then select this recording from the
> recordings that I was able to watch the time-shifted channel. 
> However, it usually does not work.
>
> How can I tell VDR to ignore the tuner of the FF-card and only tune
> with the tuner of the budget card, but to use the decoder of the
> FF-card for display?
>
> Cheers,
> Arnd.
Just set the 'CA' parameter of all your channels to '1'.

Klaus