Theunis Potgieter wrote:

It could be possible to do it in a similar way as Alternative channel -patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Alternative_channel-patch) handles alternative channels. But since that patch only works for recording a channel it would need some work.

Does this patch still work for 1.7.12 or above? My German is not good, but I can see it was applied to VDR 1.4.x..

On 30 March 2010 21:26, Rob Davis rob@davis-family.info wrote:

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I don't know if I immagined it, but is there a way to get VDR to use a secondary channel if the first channel is busy?

To give an explanation, I have multiple ways a I can receive a channel, through ATSC, or through PVRINPUT or NTSC.  I would like to know if there is a rollover system, if the first channel is busy, use the second, then third.

It seems I saw something which suggested this was possible, but maybe not..

I think the current method is, one channel is tried on multiple devices matching the same source type. Channel 1 is dvb-s, tried on card-x to card-z of the same source type. I am not sure if there is a way to roll-over to another channel/different source type. How would this have to be handled? Will these channels be grouped together?

At the moment I have lots of different channels for each source.

I'm guessing we could have a transparency file..

T-0-567-4 P-0-40-1 P-0-64-1-64

So if T-0-567-4 is busy, use P-0-40-1, if that's busy use P-0-64-1-64

(Numbers taken from Streamdev, no idea if they're correct..)

On 30/03/10 17:23, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:

What plugin are you using for ntsc and how are you making the channels.conf for ntsc? I have an HVR-1800 and the wiki says it is supported , but I've heard elsewhere that it isn't.

I don't think it is, as it's a dual mode card, so VDR will assume it's a DVB card and not allow it to work with IVTV..

I use a Hauppauge PVR-500 which I got on eBay..

I have a script to generate channels.conf for PVRInput and ATSC Clear Qam, which I'm about to publish.. Although it's a bit random.. I need to tidy it up a little first. It requires a kaffeine channels.dvb (generated by w_scan as w_scan won't generate a qam vdr channels.conf), then uses xmltv's output to find channel names and xmltv id's (for loadepg.pl), and then finds their channels from silicondusts qam lookup page using your zip code.

Convoluted, but seems to work. Comcast are messing around weekly with our channels, which is what drove me to this..

On 3/30/2010 12:26 PM, Rob Davis wrote:

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I don't know if I immagined it, but is there a way to get VDR to use a secondary channel if the first channel is busy?

To give an explanation, I have multiple ways a I can receive a channel, through ATSC, or through PVRINPUT or NTSC. I would like to know if there is a rollover system, if the first channel is busy, use the second, then third.

It seems I saw something which suggested this was possible, but maybe not..

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