[vdr] Re: CAM initialization problem

[Tero Siironen <tero.siironen@mail.suomi.net>]

On 4.1.2005 00:16, "Wolfgang Goeller" <wgoeller@heraklit.ch> wrote:

> Heikki Manninen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 23:27 +0200, Tero Siironen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I have problem with VDR 1.3.[14-17] and Technotrend's dvb-c FF card with CAM
>>> and Conax. Problem is that all the cable channels here in Oulu are
>>> encrypted. Now, if I have set CA value in channels.conf to B00 for every
>>> channel, VDR cannot open any channel at the startup as the CAM is not
>>> initialized.
>> 
>> 
>> Confirm that. I noted this here about a month ago also on another
>> thread.
> 
> There might be a workaround - not very nice - but most times it works for
> me: In remux.c change the line:
> 
> #define MAXNONUSEFULDATA (10*1024*1024)
> 
> to a a higher value. I don't know what's the maximum value.
> 
> Actually I use:
> 
> #define MAXNONUSEFULDATA (220*1024*1024)
> 
> that gives vdr more time to initialize the CAM.


Now that I had time to test this I found out it not to work. I tried 220,
500 and 1000 instead of 10, none of them worked.



-- 
Tero Siironen