On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 00:58 +0200, Timo J. Rinne wrote:

I've also seen this artifact even without multicam stuff a couple of times with a latest few vdr versions, mainly 1.3.34-1.3.36. I think that order of events leading to this has been such that at some point CAM (I have Conax 4.00) has just somehow disappeared and after making a CAM reset it has reappeared after a while. But instead of working correctly, it shows the same kind of symptoms that my namesake above described.

Same issues here with Conax 4.00 and VDR >= 1.3.32. In general, the recent changes have seemed to introduce a lot of different CAM problems. Still, those changes are clearly important.

Actually since 1.3.33 or so I've had much more problems with CAM than before. After reboot it takes often 15-45 minutes for CAM to be found by vdr. Then after a couple of days it can just disappear. Sometimes when the timer starts to record from encrypted channel, vdr crashes and after it has restarted, CAM isn't on the setup page. Annoying. Anyways, _everything_ else seems to work much better than before.

Same here. The CAMs I have just stop. They appear in the CICAM menu, but don't appear to be working normally. When I change to an encrypted channel ( for example: Discovery;Telenor:322000:C0M128:C:6875:900:901=eng:301:B00:40:0:7:0) the picture is shown for a while and after that couple of seconds (pretty much same as the length before picture freezes when you shut down VDR) it freezes. Changing channels back and forth repeats the issue. This happens in transfer mode (my primary card doesn't have a CAM). After resetting the CAMs everything is normal for a couple of hours or so (impossible to say). Also I've noticed that if I keep on watching the channel the problem doesn't appear on the, let's say, active CAM.

This behaviour naturally causes VDR to exit with "no usable data seen..." when a timer starts on an encypted channel.

In my setup I've one Hauppauge full with CI and two budget cards. All DVB-C. My stuff runs in 2.4GHz P4 with SUSE 10.0 (linux-2.6.13 kernel).

1 x Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-C 2.1 (primary) 2 x TechnoTrend DVB-C 2.1 wth CI and Conax CAM 4.00e Fedora Core 4, VDR 1.3.36 at the moment