Re: [Redbutton-devel] How to use RedButton

[Mario R. <mar...@go...>]

> > 1) It seems that redbutton uses channels.conf now, but if I don't use
> > tzap it cannot find anything. Is it able to tune at the beginning?
> >
>
> it should be able to tune at the beginning, you should just be able to
> do:
>
> rb-download 4165
>
> to get BBC1 - it uses the same code as tzap to tune, so it should work!
>

Hi,

I think I had an old snapshot or a bad compilation.
Now, as you suggested "rb-download XXXX" tunes and download the
teletext information for that service and it creates the right
directory under services/

> > 2) If there is alreay an application using the dvb-t card it fails
> > ERROR: failed opening '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' (Device or resource busy)
> > while i remember I used to be able to use it on the same frequency of
> > the already displayed channel.
> >
>
> it tries to open the frontend device read/write first, if this fails it
> prints something like "you will not be able to retune", then tries to
> open the frontend read-only - that should work, even if another process
> is using the frontend (I can use rb-download while mythtv is running on
> the same machine - I just can't retune then)
>
> that error message doesn't look like one from rb-download
>

you are right again.

Basically the only problems that I have is the video. I've seen, with
"top" that redbutton uses 100% of the CPU, so I guess that this is the
problem. I will be better when you introduce the other video modes.

Is it possible to leave the rb-download running and choose the channel
from the browser? Or do I have to start them both synchronized?

Great job!