On su, 2005-08-07 at 16:52 +0300, Rantanen Teemu wrote:

I have a problem with my VDR setup. VDR does not see my Conax cam after a (VDR) restart. It is not possible to watch encrypted channels after the restart (channel not available), and VDR does not continue timer on an encrypted channel.

VDR does detect Conax after some time, and then the timer continues to record and it is possible to switch to an encrypted channel on a live view, but the time before this happens can be annoyingly long. It is possible to make VDR detect Conax (almost) immediately if I initiate an EPG scan after the startup.

I'd like to know if this happens to someone else too, and is there a workaround (or fix) to make VDR probe CI/cams immediately at startup.

My Technotrend DVB-C is not a primary card (as I use xine -device), could this have something to do with the problem?

I had the exact same problem when all of the available channels were encrypted (Conax). VDR wouldn't start on a encrypted channel not being available before CAM has been initialized and CAM wasn't initialized before changing to an encrypted channel.. so a real chicken and egg.

Of course there was ways to circumvent this but it was really annoying and I asked on this list if VDR vould be changed to initialize CAMs always on startup. Don't know if it's done.