On to, 2005-10-27 at 13:17 +0200, Daniel Asplund wrote:
On 10/27/05, Heikki Manninen hma@iki.fi wrote:
It's done automatically by VDR if the CA field in channels.conf has e.g. "B00" (=Conax) for the channel in question.
Thanks! I checked in my channels.conf file and the CA field was still on 1 and not B00. Changed that and now I'm not allowed to change channel.
Yes. That binds the channel to DVB device #1. This is one of the problems with the current VDR channels.conf. You're not able to bind an entry in channels.conf to a specific DVB device (and thus to a specific CAM) without VDR losing the information about the fact that it is a crypted service. Doing so causes VDR to think that you can record multiple streams with that device even when it is busy recording/decrypting an encrypted service.
It becomes a problem when you have to CAMs of the same type (Conax for example) and would like to have a different set of subscriptions on them. I, for example, have to pay all my subscriptions twice per month to have two key cards with similar set of services.
Anyone know if this feature to record two channels on same transponder will be implemented soon or is it technical impossible with the Conax CAM?
There was a patch long time ago but it wasn't very reliable. I tried it a couple of times and my Conax CAM 4.00e seemed to be able to record some three or four channels at the same time.