[vdr] Re: Can I activate a CAM card with vdr ?

[Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr>]

Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> writes:

>> In other word, does the following message means that video data are
>> not forwarded to the CAM :

>>    vdr[27423]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10493596 byte of
>> video stream
>
> No. This jut means that VDR didn't get any useful data *out* of the
> CAM. The original data is still fed into the CAM, so if you CAM is
> able to "activate" the card, just tuning to that channel should do
> the trick.

Thanks. 

I've modified cSoftDevice so that ProvidesCa returns 1 (in fact it
uses cDevice::ProvidesCa).

I also set up debug output of ci.c:
 // Set these to 'true' for debug output:
 static bool DumpTPDUDataTransfer = true;
 static bool DebugProtocol = true;

Unfortunately, I still have not a single message related to ci
handling on stderr. Is that normal ?

I also tried to record the encrypted video, but vdr performs an
emergency exit when it cannot decode the encrypted video stream.

I have some trouble finding out where to put traces to check how is
handled my CAM. Can anyone give me a hint ?

And how can I check that softdevice is actually using data from the
output of the CAM ? (and not the encrypted input)

Thanks for any hint

PS: for what its worth, here's the user.log of vdr with modified
softdevice:


Dec  5 14:41:18 localhost vdr[17660]: switching to channel 6
Dec  5 14:41:18 localhost vdr[17660]: cDevice::ProvidesCa: found Ca 1
Dec  5 14:41:18 localhost vdr[17660]: cDvbDevice::ProvidesCa: found 1 from cDevice
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17667]: transfer thread started (pid=17667, tid=81926)
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17668]: receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=17668, tid=98311)
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17669]: TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=17669, tid=114696)
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17664]: changing name of channel 550 from 'TF6,;TPS' to 'TF6,;'
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17664]: changing name of channel 559 from 'Météo Express,;' to 'Météo Express,;OpenMux'
Dec  5 14:41:19 localhost vdr[17664]: channel 6 (TF1) event 14:23 'AGENCE MATRIX' status 4
Dec  5 14:41:20 localhost vdr[17664]: changing caids of channel 546 from 500 to 0
Dec  5 14:41:39 localhost vdr[17667]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10545296 byte of video stream
Dec  5 14:45:39 localhost vdr[17664]: changing caids of channel 546 from 0 to 500
Dec  5 14:45:39 localhost vdr[17664]: changing ca descriptors of channel 546
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: cDevice::ProvidesCa: found Ca 1
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: cDvbDevice::ProvidesCa: found 1 from cDevice
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: switching device 1 to channel 6
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: timer 2 (6 1455-1755 '@TITLE EPISODE') start
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: Title: 'AGENCE MATRIX' Subtitle: ''
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: record /video/@AGENCE_MATRIX__/2004-12-05.14:55.50.99.rec
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: creating directory /video/@AGENCE_MATRIX__
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: creating directory /video/@AGENCE_MATRIX__/2004-12-05.14:55.50.99.rec
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[17660]: recording to '/video/@AGENCE_MATRIX__/2004-12-05.14:55.50.99.rec/001.vdr'
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[18023]: file writer thread started (pid=18023, tid=147466)
Dec  5 14:55:18 localhost vdr[18024]: recording thread started (pid=18024, tid=163851)
Dec  5 14:55:46 localhost vdr[18024]: ERROR: no useful data seen within 10497168 byte of video stream
Dec  5 14:55:46 localhost vdr[18024]: initiating emergency exit