Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Heikki Manninen wrote:
On su, 2007-01-14 at 14:48 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Your CAM doesn't respond to the QUERY that VDR sends to it. So VDR can't ask the CAM whether it is able to decrypt a certain channel (in addition to others it is already decrypting). So it's a hard-/firmware restriction of your CAM.
The only CAM I have here that actually can decrypt more than one channel is the Alphacrypt with firmware revision 3.09.
Conax 4.00e is able to decrypt 2-3 channels at the same time. Although when used with VDR 1.5.0 it is not. Also when using previous versions of
If the CAM doesn't respond to a QUERY, then how is VDR supposed to know whether it can decrypt more than one channel at a time?
I think i can say with resonable confidence that most VDR-Systems don't change at a regular basis, but stay unchanged (more or less) for sometimes years(*).
So why not make a "probe capabilities" function (where you could also probe "unsafe" things, with a bit of user interaction(*2)) and then store the information away in a config-file.
The next time the system has significant changes you can probe again.
*: My first VDR-machine is for e.g. practically unchanged (hardware-wise) since i build it sometime near end of 2000(!).
*2: Ever installed Windows? I've seen: "The screen may go blank and the computer can freeze", or something in the same sense.
Bis denn