AW: [mythtv] More DVB Channels from one Transponer

John Pullan jmp at tarantella.com
Wed May 18 07:46:21 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:44 +0200, Jochen Kühner wrote:
> Why should I only new wich multiplexes we have after a scan??

> We have a liste of the Multiplex in the dtv_multiplex table, 

Which you probably got with a scan. unless you hand edited all the
multiplex's in via "advanced".


> and when I
> record a programm I have the multiplex id wich it uses. So I kno now that I
> can record all other programs with the same mplex-id on the same card to.
> 
> Im currently working out if the linux driver supports 2 or more streams from
> one transponder and how this could be included in myth-tv!
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] Im
> Auftrag von John Pullan
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 18:43
> An: Development of mythtv
> Betreff: Re: [mythtv] More DVB Channels from one Transponer
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:38 +0200, Jochen Kühner wrote: 
> > As step to Program a Option for watchin more Channels wich come from one
> > Transponder with DVB I suggest not to Disable the TV Menu when a recording
> > is active and there are no Free Cards or Resources. My suggestion where to
> > show a picture with a Text: "This Channel is not Aviable, Because an other
> > is recorded.". Whene You jump to the Channel wich is recorded autmaticaly
> > the recording is shown.
> > 
> > Because when You enable To watch TV also while you are Recording one
> Program
> > and you have DVB you had to come into the WatchTV Menu, because you had to
> > select a Channel wich is aviable.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I quite follow all of your email but I think the following
> areas of work need to be covered.
> 
> Work out how you can use the scheduler to share a DVB card. The sharable
> field in the cardinput table allows you to mark an input as sharable,
> but I'm not sure how you link these things together to specific channel
> groups.
> 
> One of the main issues I can see is feeding the list of multiplex's back
> into the system in some sort of sensible way. Currently we only know
> which multiplexes we have after we do a scan. This is the area of UI
> that I'd concentrate on.
> 
> You also need to consider how you open additional PIDS in dvbrecorder to
> do this. 
> 
> This would probably cover the main points of the scheduler you could
> then move onto the frontend. I'm sure there's other stuff as well.
> 
> So, easy then :)
> --
> John
> 
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