While reading up on the subject I saw a reference to the NewCS <rate> tag that can be set. If more requests come in than what is specified at <rate> then it will drop these requests. Apparently it can be left out altogether (or raised of course). Perhaps that's what you were experiencing?
<br><br>FWIW: My test setup was CentOS 5.1, NewCS 1.50, <a href="http://Willem.org">Willem.org</a> dual-phoenix, sasc-ng checkout of week 49 (don't know it's version number and can't check it now), <a href="http://Linuxtv.org">
Linuxtv.org</a> checkout of v4l-dvb of week 49, KNC1 rev2 DVB-S adapter and MythTV 0.20.2 mythbackend from <a href="http://atrpms.net">atrpms.net</a> repository. This setup acted as a backend only with MiniMyth diskless mythfrontends.
<br><br>Now I need to find more time to move on with this. Either I move my current Fedora Core 4 environment to this one, or first I'll incorporate NewCS and Sasc-ng into the Core 4 environment.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 28, 2007 5:24 PM, Ismo Tanskanen <<a href="mailto:ismot@telemail.fi">ismot@telemail.fi</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I tried latest sasc-ng and NewCS card server. I also have phoenix.<br>It worked, but crashed time to time. Or it did not really crash, but<br>could not decrypt channels any more, and virtual tuners didnot show even<br>free channels after that. I got much card errors, reset etc. Maybe my
<br>card is not well compatible?<br><br>I also tried other cardserver, newcamd, but it was not much better.<br><br>As I use myth to record shows almost 24h/day, stability is number one to me.<br><br>I'm grateful, if you can share your experiences with your setup and
<br>stability.<br><br>-Kane<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>What stability issues did you experience? Last week I built a test setup<br>where I had a Phoenix smartcard reader and NewCS to serve the keys. Sasc-ng<br>acts as a softcam that talks with the NewCS server and creates a virtual DVB
<br>adapter besides the physical one. Myth uses the virtual adapter for scanning<br>and tuning. This setup worked really well for my Canal Digitaal (Dutch<br>satellite) subscription. Being a test setup built last week I can't vouch
<br>for it's stability yet, but I'm now working out how to convert my current<br>"production" environment to this one. From what you describe it sounds<br>similar to what you have tried and experienced stability issues. Is it
<br>similar indeed? Any things I need to double check before going ahead based<br>on your experiences?<br><br>Jelte<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 26, 2007 9:37 PM, Ismo Tanskanen <ismot> wrote:<br><br>> I have three DVB-T cards in my backend. It looks like it is really hard
<br>> to get working tuner cards with Common Interface. And with many tuners,<br>> it is problematic, because you just can use one tuner with pay channels.<br>><br>> I have tried "softcam" and virtual tuners, but it appears not to be
<br>> stable enough.<br>><br>> I think there is no support for usb phoenix card reader or any similar<br>> built in myth. I think that would be great improvement. Especially with<br>> multi-rec branch.<br>
><br>> Today, we need "credit cards" for satellite reception, dvb-t and dvb-c<br>> reception. Seldomly you can live without pay card and channels. Against<br>> that it is really small mass of suitable tuner cards available.
<br>><br>> I don't mention any unlegal applications, only legal pay card usage. I<br>> think hauppage for example offers usb-connected pay card reader as<br>> add-on to they video cards. So I don't see why it would be unlegal.
<br>><br>><br>> What you guys say, would it be very difficult to integrate that to myth?<br>> Should I make a feature request to wiki? I know, I don't have<br>> programming skills enought to realise that feature myself.
<br>><br>> Or is it just there in Finland, where this option would be irreplaceable?<br>><br>><br>> -Kane<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> mythtv-users
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