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

[Werner Hauger <whauger@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:59:10 +0000, Andrew de Quincey
<adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> wrote:
> 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?

Irdeto Euro CAM. Works fine under Windows though.
 
> 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.
> 
>