[mythtv] More DVB Channels from one Transponer

John Pullan jmp at tarantella.com
Tue May 17 16:42:50 UTC 2005


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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