On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Malte Forkel wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded from vdr 1.4.7 to vdr 1.6.0 (from the e-tobi.net > experimental repository). That has changed the order in which devices are > selected for recording significantly. Now, the only card with the CAM is > selected first when recording non-encrypted channels, preventing later > timers from recording encrypted channels. > > This is my hardware setup: > DVB1: full-featured card (Hauppauge WinTV DVB-C rev 2.X) > DVB2: budget card with CI and CAM (TerraTec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C) > DVB3: budget card (TerraTec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C) > > As a test, I started tree recordings on non-encrypted channels, one after > the other. With vdr 1.4.7, these recordings use DVB3, DVB1, and DVB2, > sparing the card with the CAM as long as possible. With vdr 1.6.0, the > recordings use DVB2 (!), DVB3, and DVB1, but using the the card with the > CAM first. So one recording of a non-encrypted channels blocks all > encrypted channels. I think I ran into a similar problem earlier myself. I have only two cards; one DVB-C TT budget (without CI/CAM) and one DVB-C Hauppauge FF with CI/CAM, and a DXR3 as the primary device. I haven't run into this problem in a while, but I'm not sure why - it might be that I swapped the cards' PCI slots or maybe I just haven't had a scenario where this would bite in a while. But anyway, I agree that VDR should save the CAM for last. And as a nice addition to that, perhaps even change the card used for a recording on the fly if that's what it takes to get all needed programs recorded, for example: Timer 1: 20:00-21:00, non-encrypted Timer 2: 20:30-21:30, non-encrypted (different MUX/$something than timer 1) Timer 3: 21:00-22:00, encrypted Card A: no CAM (can in theory do timers 1 and 2) Card B: CAM (can in theory do timers 1, 2 and 3) So, card A starts recording timer 1. Then, card B starts recording timer 2 (because it's on a different $something than timer 1, so card A can't take care of it simultaneously with timer 1). When timer 3 starts, timer 2 would be changed on the fly to continue recording on card A, and card B would start recording timer 3. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
