Hi!
With vdr 1.3.27 Travelchannel behaves a little bit strange. Each time I tune to this channel, the CA becomes 3331 and the channel becomes unavailable. Is there anything I can do about it besides disabling channel updates globally?
bye,
Tobias
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Tobias Grimm wrote:
Hi!
With vdr 1.3.27 Travelchannel behaves a little bit strange. Each time I tune to this channel, the CA becomes 3331 and the channel becomes unavailable. Is there anything I can do about it besides disabling channel updates globally?
Disable the check for the availability of a suitable cam. In dvbdevice.c, change the method cDvbDevice::ProvidesCa to return always true. Of course this will mean you will be able to select channels that you cannot see, but it will also allow to select channels that advertise themselves as encrypted while they really aren't. I asked for this to be made configurable a while ago due to a similar problem.
Bye
Luca Olivetti schrieb:
Disable the check for the availability of a suitable cam. In dvbdevice.c, change the method cDvbDevice::ProvidesCa to return always true. I asked for this to be made configurable a while ago due to a similar problem.
Thanks! If Klaus doesn't come up with a better idea, I will probably write a small patch for it (with a proper setup option). One more patch won't hurt - we already have 36 patches in the Debian/ctvdr-Package of 1.3.27 :-) (But only about 20 patches are kinda "essential".)
Tobias
luca@ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 26.06.05 18:00
Tobias Grimm wrote:
Hi!
With vdr 1.3.27 Travelchannel behaves a little bit strange. Each time I tune to this channel, the CA becomes 3331 and the channel becomes unavailable. Is there anything I can do about it besides disabling channel updates globally?
Disable the check for the availability of a suitable cam. In dvbdevice.c, change the method cDvbDevice::ProvidesCa to return always true. Of course this will mean you will be able to select channels that you cannot see, but it will also allow to select channels that advertise themselves as encrypted while they really aren't. I asked for this to be made configurable a while ago due to a similar problem.
I second that it should be possible to view encrypted channels while they are not crypted. If they are not decryptable the recording should stop and wait. Currenlty VDR run's into panic restarts and breaks all over recording too.
But pay attention to HDTV channels which are currrently only blocked by an "impossible" CA value in channels.conf IIRC.
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