I thought this was because of the priority patch for better maping of timers to tuners, but I have removed that patch and still loose a tuner. Using vdr-1.7.8 (for some reason I have no sound with 179), after there have been timer records, one of the tuners in a dual tuner card, mostly the second no longer seems to work. If I use femon to switch between tuners on the currnt channel, it's as if it has no antenna connected even though the card only has 1 input. It is not a driver problem because I only have to restart vdr, not the drivers to fix it. It seems to work again until a timer record has gone off. It also doesn't always happen. Some times both tuners still work after a timer which is why I thought it was the patch.
I found a problem which might be related in some way, dunno. I have 3 tuners and noticed that if I have 3 timers which overlap at all, and 2 of those timers are on the same channel, VDR still uses all 3 tuners instead of grouping the timers that are on the same channel together. I reported this to Klaus already but not sure if he's found the problem and/or worked out a fix for it.
Not sure, but I think that is what that priority patch took care of. Setup record for several shows with some overlaping but on the same channel. If one is on another channel, it would sometimes insist on puting the overlaped same channel shows on different tuners and then not have enough for the 3rd show. The patch reconized this condition and optimized the timers for the tuners you have. But what I am seeing is even with just a single timer set, after it has run, the second tuner is no longer able to tune. Don't if vdr thinks it's still in use and refusing to send data or what, but according to femon plugin it's not tuned to anything and it should still be tuned to what ever last channel it was sent to.
----- Original Message ----- From: "VDR User" user.vdr@gmail.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] Loosing tuners
I found a problem which might be related in some way, dunno. I have 3 tuners and noticed that if I have 3 timers which overlap at all, and 2 of those timers are on the same channel, VDR still uses all 3 tuners instead of grouping the timers that are on the same channel together. I reported this to Klaus already but not sure if he's found the problem and/or worked out a fix for it.
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