[mythtv] dvb problems

[Jesper Sörensen]

Torbjörn Jansson wrote:

>>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.
>  
>

It works for me with a Nova-S-CI so I guess that either your driver is 
buggy, or this method of detecting CI slots is unreliable. Either way, 
maybe we need to take that code out for 0.17... Anyone else having 
problems with this? Opinions?