Problems with CAM on second Card

[Kevin Bishop]

I have dual TT3200 cards each with CI & CAM and I am currently running DVBViewer 3.9.0.0

 

I have been trying to resolve several problems with my DVBViewer setup recently, such as the TV (I use Video out into a TV) resetting every so often and the picture freezing (now resolved) and in the process I have upgraded the Drivers for the TT cards, ATI video card & even DVBViewer to 3.9.1.0 (which I have now rolled back).

 

I have always found running dual CAMS to be a little flakey and have resorted to runing one card in DVBserver and one directly in DVBViewer and for some months this has worked fine, but recently (perhaps since my tinkerring) I cannot get DVBViewer to work with both CAMS.

 

The second card will not dcrypt and under View, 'Show CAM' is greyed out. If I remove either card the other works fine and the CAM is seen and works, so this is not a physical hardware problem. I have upgraded and downgraded the TT drivers, to no avail. I have also upgraded and downgraded DVBViewer to no avail.

 

The only thing I haven't down is downgrade the video card driver - but I cannot see how that would make a difference.

 

Can anybody help? Perhaps some information on how DVBViewer identifies the card has a cam. I have scanned hardware numeous times. It did work once, but after a reboot it stopped again. As far as I can see the hardware.xml file has both cards configured the same and CI is enabled for both.

 

Are there any useful diagnostic tools? Perhaps to test the CI & CAM as seen by DVBViewer?

 

Is there a list of recommended driver versions for TT or ATI cards?

 

Thanks in advance.....

[Kevin Bishop]

I have now managed to get the cards both working (using the TT driver 5.0.0.2), one card directly to DVBViewer and one to DVBserver, they both decrypt OK, but it still all feels very flakey.

It takes a good few seconds to change channel sometimes and although DVBViewer is configured to select the internal card before it uses unicast to dvbserver (on the same PC), sometimes when a recording finishes it doesn't switch back to the internal card (obviously) but if left on that channel, it prevents any remote PCs accessing DVBserver.

 

I guess two cards and two CAMs may be pushing DVBViewer, but hopefully this issue may be resolved in a future release.