[vdr] Re: CAM - failure and no shutdown

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

Wolfgang Goeller wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I just encountered the following while recording from an encrypted channel
> 
> Jun 12 20:48:24 gorgias vdr[24453]: CAM: retrying to establish connection
> Jun 12 20:48:27 gorgias vdr[24453]: ERROR: CAM: Read failed: slot 0, tcid 1
> 
> This messages whre repeated continously for about 10 Minutes. During that
> time the recording-file had a constant size.
> 
> I thought: If no valid video-data arrive for some seconds vdr will initiate
> an emergency exit. Is this only during start-up?

The recorder only checks whether there is _any_ TS data coming in,
and the cRemux::Process() function only triggers an exit if the first 10MB
of data are all useless. Maybe cRemux::Process() should keep on checking
even after the first 10MB...

If your CAM doesn't work reliably with the link layer firmware, you may
want to try the -icam version. Be sure, though, to load the driver with
hw_sections=1 then (see my other postings here and on linux-dvb).

Klaus
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