Tomas Prybil wrote:

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Hi list!

C+ are now starting up a new channel with films in HDTV format named C MORE HD on their Scandinavian feed from Thor. I'm interested in trying to record and later have a look at this. I've understand (and seen) that the FF cards are unable to handle the feed itself and I therefore need to get a budget card.

Now to the Q: Can the budget card use the CA inserted in the FF card in order to decrypt the stream?

No, that's not possible (AFAIK).

But a FF card might be possible to _record_ the stream, even though it can't _replay_ it. The limiting factor here is the MPEG decoder. Haven't tried this, though.

The followup Q would then be how? I've tried to use a timer to record the channel, but vdr shuts down.

Jul 24 17:01:13 piglet vdr[23750]: transfer thread started (pid=23750, tid=327686) Jul 24 17:01:13 piglet vdr[23636]: timer 4 (694 1701-2001 '@TITLE EPISODE') start Jul 24 17:01:13 piglet vdr[23636]: waiting for EPG info... Jul 24 17:01:13 piglet vdr[23751]: receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=23751, tid=344071) Jul 24 17:01:13 piglet vdr[23752]: TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=23752, tid=360456) Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: no EPG info available Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: record /video/@C_MORE_HD__/2005-07-24.17:01.50.99.rec Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: creating directory /video/@C_MORE_HD__ Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: creating directory /video/@C_MORE_HD__/2005-07-24.17:01.50.99.rec Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: recording to '/video/@C_MORE_HD__/2005-07-24.17:01.50.99.rec/001.vdr' Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23753]: file writer thread started (pid=23753, tid=376841) Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23754]: recording thread started (pid=23754, tid=393226) Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23754]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10687236 byte of video stream Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23754]: initiating emergency exit Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23636]: emergency exit requested - shutting down

/t

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

vdrmail@prybil.se wrote:

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Tomas Prybil wrote:

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C+ are now starting up a new channel with films in HDTV format named C MORE HD on their Scandinavian feed from Thor. I'm interested in trying to record and later have a look at this.

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The followup Q would then be how? I've tried to use a timer to record the channel, but vdr shuts down.

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Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23636]: recording to '/video/@C_MORE_HD__/2005-07-24.17:01.50.99.rec/001.vdr' Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23753]: file writer thread started (pid=23753, tid=376841) Jul 24 17:01:17 piglet vdr[23754]: recording thread started (pid=23754, tid=393226) Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23754]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10687236 byte of video stream Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23754]: initiating emergency exit Jul 24 17:01:22 piglet vdr[23636]: emergency exit requested - shutting down

Maybe the stream is encrypted?

Yep, it is. Is the bottleneck then that the decrypter of the FF card can't handle HD streams (or didn't the previous poster have a subscription)?

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:39:31 +0200, Tomas Prybil wrote

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

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Maybe the stream is encrypted?

;) yeah,

But vdr found the parameters and added the channel to channels.conf. I'm just using that!

Anyway I've just ordered a budget card for some experimets.

/t

I've read previous post regarding HDTV that xine is the way to replay HD material.

Please update me when you get the card. I'm very interested!