[vdr] Re: multi-audio recording (VDR Bug ?)

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

Lutz Feldgen wrote:
> 
> Hello Start-Games,
> 
> Sunday, March 10, 2002, 10:58:24 PM, you wrote:
> 
> SGD> lo all thanks a lot for workingso hard on this great project.
> 
> SGD> A few month ago i tested VDR with my CI Cams (Aston and Viaccess Red 478) to record channels with two audio pids like Canal+ France and CanalJimmy (i have a subscription to this private chan).
> SGD> At that time it did not work with my Aston (Seca) but it worked suprisingly with the viaccess cam (most of canalsat chans are crypted both in seca and viaccess).
> SGD> I've tried the latest VDR & Driver (latest CVS) a few days ago to check if the CAM support was any better than before and i've noticed that I can't record multiple audio anymore (with via or
> SGD> seca).
> 
> SGD> So I was wondering if the multiple audio recording has been disabled in VDR or if it's still a CAM problem...
> 
> SGD> I have also noticed a strange VDR behaviour when starting a recording :
> SGD> let's say you set two audio pids on your chan : 84 first and 85 second
> SGD> if you tune to this chan and then change to the second audio pid (85) and start a recording; VDR will switch back to the first audio pid (84) and record it. In this case as you can't record
> SGD> multiple audio because of the cam problem then you can't record a program with the second audio pid...
> 
> This is normal behaviour...vdr chooses the first audio-pid to record.
> Thats why i edited my channels.conf to have a channel with multiple
> audio 1 time with first audio-pid and 2nd time with second audio-pid.
> so i can choose which audio to record...

VDR sets things up so that *BOTH* audio PIDs are recorded.
If this doesn't work, I guess it must be a CAM or driver/firmware problem.

Here on my system (Irdeto AllCAM 4.7) it records both audio PIDs just
fine and I can select at replay time which one to listen to.

Klaus
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