Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I have uploaded a patch against VDR 1.3.36 to > > ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.36-multicamtest.diff > > which is a first attempt to allow multiple channels to > be decrypted at the same time, provided the CAM supports > this. > > There is currently no test whether this operation is possible > or how many channels a given CAM can decrypt simultaneously, > so use this with extreme care! This is just for testing!! > > With my AlphaCrypt CAM I have successfully tested 3 parallel > recordings of encrypted channels on the same transponder. > > Now the reason why I am providing this patch is that I'd > like to invite you folks to try this out and maybe see what > might be wrong here. The problem is that whenever a channel > is added or removed from the CA_PMT data, there are distortions > in the recordings. > ... Meanwhile I got a message from Mascom (the manufacturer of the AlphaCrypt CAM) and they told me that the current CAM firmware actually has a problem there, and that it will be fixed in a future version. Klaus
