[vdr] Re: Recording and watching encypted channels

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Jussi Alanärä wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>> Maybe there is some difference if VDR has to initialy change to a channel
>> when a timer starts, or if that channel already is being watched? Maybe
>
>I tried only the latter, Animal Planet was already tuned when started
>recording.
>
>> Anyway, it *is possible to somehow do it wrong, and I can try when I get
>> home tonight.
>
>Post exact steps if you are able to do it again, I'll then try to
>reproduce it.

I could reproduce it, but it's a bit weird.

These were the channels I used. All are encrypted channels and the
definitions have not been tampered with:

SVT1:146000:C0M128:C:6900:1019:1018:1014:1:1010:0:1:0
SVT2:146000:C0M128:C:6900:1029:1028:1024:1:5030:0:1:0
TV4:146000:C0M128:C:6900:1049:1048:1046:B00:1040:0:1:0

I created a timer on SVT1 which started after 2 minutes without problems,
I was still watching the same channel. Tried a direct "Channel down" to
SVT2. No luck, I got the "Channel not available" message. Tried to access
SVT2 through the "Channels" menu and that worked. I could switch to SVT2
and at that point the recording "broke". I could not however switch to any
other encrypted channel such as "TV4" nor to any other FTA channel. But I
could switch to "SVT2".

Maybe this has something to do with an old channels.conf from the 1.2 days
being used (although modified by VDR)? The CAM-parameter is different for
the last channel "TV4". The first two ones are old nad were present before
I switched to VDR 1.3.x, "TV4" was added by VDR automatically.

The log from my experiment:

vdr[2932]: timer 22 (9 1746-1800 'SVT1') start
vdr[2932]: Title: 'Tillbaka till Vintergatan' Subtitle: '<snip>.'
vdr[2932]: record /video/SVT1/2004-02-12.17:46.50.50.rec
vdr[2932]: creating directory /video/SVT1
vdr[2932]: creating directory /video/SVT1/2004-02-12.17:46.50.50.rec
vdr[2932]: recording to '/video/SVT1/2004-02-12.17:46.50.50.rec/001.vdr'
vdr[2945]: recording thread started (pid=2945, tid=98311)
vdr[2932]: led: Led::Recording started recording SVT1, now active: 1
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: max. latency time 3 seconds
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 10
vdr[2942]: transfer thread ended (pid=2942, tid=65541)
vdr[2932]: buffer stats: 67492 (6%) used
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 11
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 10
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 3
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 5
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 6
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 11
vdr[2932]: ERROR: Channel not available!
vdr[2932]: switching to channel 9
vdr[2947]: transfer thread started (pid=2947, tid=114696)
vdr[2932]: timer 22 deactivated

9 is SVT1, 10 is SVT2 and 11 is TV4. Maybe I should let VDR rescan all the
channels and that would fix the problem?

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