On 01/27/08 08:11, Simon Baxter wrote:
Hi
I'm running vdr-1.5.12 with a TT-1500-C card, CI and alphacrypt multi-cam. All channels are encrypted.
Intermittantly I try and switch to a channel and I get a "Channel not available" message. After switching back and forth between channels, finally the channel will select, and everything's ok.
I've been trying to diagnose it, and so far all I can see is below: Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [3287] switching to channel 20 Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [3287] cTS2PES got 2 TS errors, 2 TS continuity errors Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [3287] buffer stats: 58656 (2%) used Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [3287] info: Channel not available! Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [4167] TS buffer on device 1 thread ended (pid=3287, tid=4167) Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [4166] buffer stats: 58280 (2%) used Jan 27 20:05:29 callin vdr: [4166] receiver on device 1 thread ended (pid=3287, tid=4166)
Can anyone tell me what this cTS2PES error is, and if it's likely to be to do with my problem? What else can I try?
Maybe your CAM needs longer than TS_SCRAMBLING_TIMEOUT (default is 3 seconds) to start decrypting. You can try increasing that number in device.c.
It is also very likely that I am going to remove the two lines
&& !cDevice::SwitchChannel(1) // ...or the next higher available one... && !cDevice::SwitchChannel(-1)) // ...or the next lower available one
from vdr.c, in order to allow switching to a channel where the CAM needs quite a long time, for instance to collect new keys because it hasn't been tuned to an encrypted channel for a while.
Klaus