[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with WinTV NOVA-CI

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Tuesday 14 Dec 2004 13:33, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> >>>Hmm, or perhaps the CI driver should reset the CAM automatically on a
> >>>retune... but that might cause other problems. My feeling is it should
> >>> be up to the userspace application to reset CAMs when appropriate -
> >>> anyone have any comments?
> >>
> >>AFAIK resetting the CAM takes quite a while - I don't think people would
> >>like to wait that long when switching channels...
> >
> > Yeah I agree. Have you seen this problem yourself BTW?
>
> I have my CAM (actually two of them) attached to a full featured,
> non primary DVB-S card and have no problems with them.

Which CAMs BTW? 

Werner, which are you using?

From my experience of the lower level stuff, there's a huge variation between 
different CAMs - the same is probably true of the higher levels as well.