[mythtv] dvb problems

[Torbjörn Jansson]

mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> Torbjörn Jansson skrev:
> 
>> When i schedule recordings on some channels the recordings end up as
>> zero lenght files. I can't find anything special in the logfile from
>> mythbackend about why it woud fail. 
>> 
>> 
> 2005-02-01 21:41:41.429 DVB#0 PID 4102 is scrambled
> 2005-02-01 21:41:41.433 DVB#0 PID 4614 is scrambled
> 2005-02-01 21:41:41.434 DVB#0 PID 4358 is scrambled
> 
> The streams are scrambled so all packets are dropped. Do you
> have a CAM?

Yes.

> If you do it doesn't seem to be found by Myth. Maybe your DVB driver
> doesn't report the number of CI slots correctly, or there is
> some other
> problem with that piece of code? The check for CI slots was recently
> added because some people were confused by the error message "unable
> to initialize CI handler" (because they didn't have a CAM) so
> now we only
> try to initialize it if there is a CI slot detected. Please
> take a look
> at the constructor in dvbcam.cpp and maybe do a printf to see
> the number
> of slots it finds, or try removing that check and see if the problem
> goes away...? 
> 

numslots is always zero and if i comment out the the code that tries to get
number of slots and then set numslots to 2 it works again.

The card i have is a technotrend dvb-c 2.1 with 2 cam slots, if that makes
any difference.