[vdr] Re: Euro1080 FTA hangs vdr

[Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de>]

Gregoire.Favre@gmail.com(Gregoire Favre)  23.12.04 17:12

>On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:32:00PM +0100, Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>> Hallo
>> While zapping this (early) morning i found that every time when i
>> switch to "Euro1080" i got artefacts for the fraction of a second
>> and then VDR dies so hard that a hardware  reset is
>> required as no OSD is displayed anymore (but lirc commands seems
>> to be accepted)

>Do you have a budget card ?

Currently not installed.

>If not you have to put a CA of let say 5 such that VDR won't allow you
>to zap to it.

A, ok. As i don't have any CA i -of cource- did not read anthing about
that.

Do i understand right:
if i would install a budget card, and would be able to 
force VDR to use that card to recieve Euro1080 FTA 
it would solve^Wavoid the problemn too?
(And maybe the HDTV could be viewed)

>If you have a budget card, then you have to use xine plugin or
>something similar, full featured (unmoded) cards can't handle HDTV
>which is on Euro1080...

Aynway: It is no "good behaviour" that something "external"
can kill the entire box so hard so that a hardware(!) reset is required.
That's not only unconvinient for the user, that might some day
be used to "exploit" the box to (Can you really trust every channel
and every mpg streams from maybe dark sources they send blindly?).

If the firmware sees: Ah, that something i can't do,
why it can't just discard the entire stream and let the driver select 
the still video stream: "Channel not available".

Too that "don't trust anything from off site" may increase the
stability of the box too, as always wrong data may
be recieved, see "unknown picture type" problem for example.


And:
If someone had all those FTA HDTV channels not blocked, he will see
"myterisous" hangs of the box because after a while
the EPG scan will touch the channel?
Not good for the image of linux/VDR.




Rainer