Hello, here's my current setup:
1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI
When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels.
Any way to achieve this through configuration?
On 23.02.2012 06:47, Heikki Manninen wrote:
Hello, here's my current setup:
1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI
When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels.
Any way to achieve this through configuration?
Actually VDR is supposed to avoid devices with CI for FTA recordings:
imp <<= 1; imp |= NumUsableSlots ? 0 : device[i]->HasCi(); // avoid cards with Common Interface for FTA channels
If this doesn't work on your system, you may want to debug the function
cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView)
to see why it selects sich a device when it shouldn't.
Klaus
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:26, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
On 23.02.2012 06:47, Heikki Manninen wrote:
Hello, here's my current setup:
1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI
When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels.
Any way to achieve this through configuration?
Actually VDR is supposed to avoid devices with CI for FTA recordings:
imp <<= 1; imp |= NumUsableSlots ? 0 : device[i]->HasCi(); // avoid cards with Common Interface for FTA channels
If this doesn't work on your system, you may want to debug the function
cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView)
to see why it selects sich a device when it shouldn't.
Ok, will do.
Before I had a CI with both Satelco cards but only one of them had the actual CAM installed. Would that have caused problems?
Could it be that if the other card is busy doing live viewing or transponder scanning, VDR selects the CI-enabled device for recording? I would still prefer the non-CI device even if it would cause retuning of the channel that is being viewed.
On 23.02.2012 10:21, Heikki Manninen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:26, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
On 23.02.2012 06:47, Heikki Manninen wrote:
Hello, here's my current setup:
1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI
When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels.
Any way to achieve this through configuration?
Actually VDR is supposed to avoid devices with CI for FTA recordings:
imp<<= 1; imp |= NumUsableSlots ? 0 : device[i]->HasCi(); // avoid cards with Common Interface for FTA channels
If this doesn't work on your system, you may want to debug the function
cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView)
to see why it selects sich a device when it shouldn't.
Ok, will do.
Before I had a CI with both Satelco cards but only one of them had the actual CAM installed. Would that have caused problems?
I don't think so.
Could it be that if the other card is busy doing live viewing or transponder scanning, VDR selects the CI-enabled device for recording? I would still prefer the non-CI device even if it would cause retuning of the channel that is being viewed.
Live viewing should not stop VDR from using a device that has a CI for recording an FTA channel. However, if there is a cReceiver attached to the on-CI device for any reason, that might keep it from being used.
Just check what's actually happening in the GetDevice() function.
Klaus
----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaus Schmidinger" Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de To: vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] Prefer non-CI equipped adapters for FTA channel recording
On 23.02.2012 10:21, Heikki Manninen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:26, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
On 23.02.2012 06:47, Heikki Manninen wrote:
Hello, here's my current setup:
1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI
When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels.
Any way to achieve this through configuration?
Actually VDR is supposed to avoid devices with CI for FTA recordings:
imp<<= 1; imp |= NumUsableSlots ? 0 : device[i]->HasCi(); // avoid cards with Common Interface for FTA channels
If this doesn't work on your system, you may want to debug the function
cDevice::GetDevice(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority, bool LiveView)
to see why it selects sich a device when it shouldn't.
Ok, will do.
Before I had a CI with both Satelco cards but only one of them had the actual CAM installed. Would that have caused problems?
I don't think so.
Could it be that if the other card is busy doing live viewing or transponder scanning, VDR selects the CI-enabled device for recording? I would still prefer the non-CI device even if it would cause retuning of the channel that is being viewed.
Live viewing should not stop VDR from using a device that has a CI for recording an FTA channel. However, if there is a cReceiver attached to the on-CI device for any reason, that might keep it from being used.
Just check what's actually happening in the GetDevice() function.
Klaus
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