Re: HVR 4000 and DVB-API

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@vtxnet.ch>]

Le Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:48:41 +0200,
Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@vtxnet.ch> a écrit :

> Le Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:27:55 +0300,
> "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net> a écrit :
> 
> Thanks for the answer.
> 
> 
> > Le lundi 24 septembre 2012 10:51:23, Dominique Michel a écrit :
> > > The WinTV HVR-4000-HD is a multi-tuners TV card with 2 dvb tuners.
> > > It look like its driver doesn't have been updated to the new
> > > DVB-API.
> > 
> > Multi-standard frontends required DVB API version 5.5. That is found
> > in kernel versions 3.2 and later. So you might need to update the
> > kernel. If you already have, then well, you need to get someone to
> > update the driver.
> 
> I have kernel 3.4.5 with the in-kernel dvb driver, so it must be OK.

I get 2 frontends, so the driver was not updated in order to use only 1
frontend and calls like DTV_ENUM_DELSYS and FE_SET_PROPERTY /
DTV_DELIVERY_SYSTEM.

The driver is cx88_dvb from Chris Pascoe and Gerd Knorr.

> > Also the application needs to be updated to support DVBv5.5 too. I
> > don't know which versions of VDR support multi-standard frontends,
> > if any as yet.
> > 
> In the main time, I will ask on the vdr forum. vdr-1.6.0 here, the
> last stable version.

vdr >= 1.7.23 is needed too.


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