Re: Filtering encrypted channels

On 07.04.20 06:11, Daniel wrote:
> Vom: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 00:00:06 +0200
> 
>> On 06.04.20 18:23, Daniel wrote:
>> > Vom: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:07:31 +0200
>> > 
>> > I've fiddled with the settings and when I changed "Audio-Languages" from 1
>> > to 2 and configured Language 1 to german and 2 to english, I could switch
>> > to NHK WORLD-JAPAN which previously didn't work.  
>> 
>> That sounds rather odd.
> 
> It makes sense to me. I configured german as only language and never noticed
> that CNN still works (only one audio stream, non-german). But channels with
> multiple audio streams (and no german one) didn't work.

That must be a problem in the VNSI plugin or whatever.
It works fine in plain VDR (just tested it). If none of the preferred
languages is available, it selects the first one.

>> > I suppose the other unencrypted channels could work, too when I select the
>> > correct audio language.  
>> 
>> There's no such thing as "correct audio language".
>> It should work with any language.
> 
> It _seems_ like a vdr-plugin-vnsiserver issue. Still it's just a wild guess.
> Since this setting apparently fixed it, i didn't dig deeper.

Well, if it works for you, that's fine.

> ...
> Is there a way to test if VDR is currently tuned to a channel? Yesterday I
> learned that my thinking was wrong. I watched TV (no recording) and VDR was
> restarted at midnight while watching ;)

VDR is *always* tuned to a (live) channel ;-).

> I tried "svdrpsend chan" but it always returns the first entry in
> channels.conf, no matter if kodi plays TV or not (or what channel it's tuned
> to).

The CHAN command tells you which channel VDR itself is currently showing live.
If you are watching with some streaming plugin, you need to ask that plugin.

Klaus

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