On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:07:05PM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:19:09PM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:
Also make sure you use recent drivers from the dvb repo, a patch I wrote
was committed a day or two ago, and without it, my CAM would lock up by
simply using a remote control (which would in turn produce lots of
interesting error messages).
I am using a Technotrend S-1500 + CI + CAM, Ive not had errors when
using the remote, but I do get problems with my card/cam if I change
channels too quickly, and sometimes if i just leave myth running in
the main menu, when I watch tv it always gets lock, but I get a blank
screen for a long time and eventually a video error or I have to kill
mythfrontend, stopping the backend, removing and reloading budget_ci
and restarting the backend usually cures it, I ended up adding a menu
item for that but its not a nice solution :(.
I have more or less the same problems. I spent some time last week
debugging it but I didn't get that far.
Really not sure what is wrong, I can leave it playing a encrypted
channel for days at a time, but if I change channels a few times it
stops working, I have a feeling perhaps the cam is not responding
quickly enough to commands, are there any timeout values I could try
changing?
If you're feeling adventurous, you might try recompiling MythTV. In
mythtv/libs/libmythtv/dvbcam.cpp, function DVBCam::CiHandlerLoop(),
there is a usleep(250) which I suspect is way to low. The CI
specification (EN50221) says it's fine to poll every 100ms, so try
setting it to 90000 or so (this ain't 100% correct because MythTV might
still want the shorter timeout to read replies etc...but it's a start if
you want to spend some effort debugging).
Additionally, you might want to change
mythtv/libs/libmythtv/dvbdev/dvbci.cpp, find the line in the beginning
that says:
static bool DebugProtocol = false;
and change it to
static bool DebugProtocol = true;
which will give you much more debug info if/when the card acts up.
My dvb-s card (Avermedia 777) and Freeview channels do not have the
same problem.
It seems very dependent on the CAM that you're using. I'm using an
AlphaCrypt with 3.09 firmware, which seems extremely picky. For
instance, I was earlier using an extra long cable to connect the CI
board with the C-1500 board, and that caused constant lockups and errors
(within seconds, cammenu was barely useable) and things improved when I
used the original (shorter) cable again.
I'm going to spend more time debugging my C-1500 when I have some more
time to spend :)
--
David Härdeman
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