[vdr] Re: Recording and watching encypted channels

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Jan Ekholm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it normal and designed behaviour that a CAM can only decrypt one
> channel at a given time? So it is not possible to record one encrypted
> channel and watch another one at the same time? I can understand this
> limitation, it seems pretty logical.
> 
> However, could one request a little feature for VDR that would warn the
> user that this is the case and that a recording will fail if the user zaps
> to other encrypted channels while doing a recording? I did this a few days
> ago, and VDR happily let me zap to any other encrypted after the recording
> had been started, thus ruining the recording. Maybe some mechanism that
> says that "the CAM is now locked, no other encrypted channels available"
> would solve the problem? Or are there deeper issues that I have no idea
> about?

I would expect that you _can't_ switch to an encrypted channel while
there is a recording going on that uses that card.

Which version of VDR are you using?
What patches/plugins?

Klaus


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