Patrick Rother wrote:

For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers.

I have:

root@vdr:/dev/dvb# ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter5/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter6/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter7/ root@vdr:/dev/dvb#

But vdr uses only the first two devices.

Is there any easy possibility to patch the code accordingly?

./vdr -D 0 -D 1 -D 5 -D 6 -D 7

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote:

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Patrick Rother wrote:

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For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers.

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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter5/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter6/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter7/

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But vdr uses only the first two devices.

Is there any easy possibility to patch the code accordingly?

./vdr -D 0 -D 1 -D 5 -D 6 -D 7

I'm afraid this won't work, because VDR stops scaning for DVB devices as soon as it hits a gap.

Good i didn't know that years ago when setting up my vdr boxes... :) IOW this approach has been working for me for quite a while w/o any problems. Note i'm still at 1.4.x and my 'gaps' actually contain adapters (unused by this vdr instance). If the gaps really are a problem you could always renumber the adapters using udev rules such as

SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", SUBSYSTEMS=="pci", KERNELS=="0000:00:0e.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter%%i/%%s 0 $${K#*.}'", NAME:="%c" SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", SUBSYSTEMS=="pci", KERNELS=="0000:02:09.0", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapter%%i/%%s 1 $${K#*.}'", NAME:="%c"

etc

artur

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Patrick Rother wrote:

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

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On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote:

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Patrick Rother wrote:

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For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers.

I have:

root@vdr:/dev/dvb# ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter5/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter6/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar 19 11:59 adapter7/ root@vdr:/dev/dvb#

But vdr uses only the first two devices.

Is there any easy possibility to patch the code accordingly?

./vdr -D 0 -D 1 -D 5 -D 6 -D 7

I'm afraid this won't work, because VDR stops scaning for DVB devices as soon as it hits a gap.

You might want to try changing this function:

bool cDvbDevice::Initialize(void) { int found = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i < MAXDVBDEVICES; i++) { if (UseDevice(NextCardIndex())) { if (Probe(*cDvbName(DEV_DVB_FRONTEND, i))) { new cDvbDevice(i); found++; } else NextCardIndex(1); // skips this one <=========== changed line } else NextCardIndex(1); // skips this one } NextCardIndex(MAXDVBDEVICES - i); // skips the rest if (found > 0) isyslog("found %d video device%s", found, found > 1 ? "s" : ""); else isyslog("no DVB device found"); return found > 0; }

Untested, don't know if it will actually work as expected.

I will test this and let you know.

Thank you!

This seems not to work.

Does anybody have another idea?

Thank you.