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[linux-dvb] Re: Problem watching other channels and recordings while recording a CA channel
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Antti-Pekka Liedes wrote:
> >
> > I have two Hauppauge DVB-C 2.1 cards with CI and Conax CAM on the first card.
> > I'm using the first card's video out. I'm currently using linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1
> > and vdr 1.3.11, although the same problem occured with older drivers (the
> > reference from VDR's homepage) and vdr 1.2.6. My kernel is a vanilla 2.4.25.
> >
> > The problem is, when I start recording a conditional access channel, I
> > sometimes can't watch any free-to-air channels or even recordings. Just half
> > an hour ago I began recording a CA channel, and switched to an FTA channel,
> > but the picture is blank. I tried watching a vdr recording, but it displays a
> > broken frame of the CA channel I'm recording and some garbage.
>
> Does this happen with other CAMs or is it specific to your Conax CAM?
> Does it only happen with two DVB cards in your PC?
>
I don't have other CAMs; Conax is the only encryption used in our cable
network. I haven't tried with just one DVB card yet, I will test with just
one card and with the Hauppauge + TechnoTrend budget card once I get the TT
(hopefully next week).
> The CA stack is a pretty isolated component, the av7110 demux
> just sees a transport stream and doesn't care if it has been
> processed by a CAM or not.
>
The broken picture and audio somehow suggest that the streams actually do get
messed up somewhere. I'm trying to watch a recording from the disk, but I
actually get broken picture and audio from the CA channel.
> Johannes
>
>
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