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<blockquote data-quote="drullens" data-source="post: 145263" data-attributes="member: 10471">Hi,With the help of Frodo and some other users with the same problem I now have a working TV server with a FloppyDTV-C card and one client. Now, I want to go to the next level.I assume everybody has read this article by Frodo on the front page:&quot;Watch/Record multiple channels with a single dvb tv card?&nbsp; Monday, 29 January 2007&nbsp; Update: this feature is now placed in svnThe most requested feature for the tvserver is to be able to watch/record multiple tv channels at the same time with just 1 tv card Impossible?... no, the upcoming tvserver does it!&nbsp; So what does this mean ? You can watch/record multiple tv/radio channels at the same time with just 1 (DVB/ATSC) tv card. Offcourse those channels should be located on the same transponder and are free-to-air (not encrypted) Another great benefit from this is that we finally get perfect back-2-back recordings! What about Encrypted channels ?If the channels are encrypted and you have a FireDTV/FloppyDTV device then you are lucky since multi channel descrambling is supported for the FireDTV/FloppyDTV devices.However there is a limit on the number of simultanous channels you can descramble at the same time This limit depends soley on the CAM you use. Some CAMs can only descramble 1 channel at the time while others can descramble 2-16 channels at the same time. Frodo&nbsp; &quot;&nbsp;So, I should by in luck, because I have a FloppyDTV-C card. I've tried to enable this, but I can't seem to get it working. MP keeps saying that when I'm recording / watching more than 1 channel that &quot;Unable to start timeshifting / no free card available&quot;But in the TV Server I have entered that the CAM should decode up to 5 channels simultaniously.Can anybody point me in the right direction? I don't think it's a bug, i think that I'm missing something here... Has anybody got this feature operational and how did you accomplish this?Greetings, Dave</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drullens, post: 145263, member: 10471"] Hi, With the help of Frodo and some other users with the same problem I now have a working TV server with a FloppyDTV-C card and one client. Now, I want to go to the next level. I assume everybody has read this article by Frodo on the front page: [I]"Watch/Record multiple channels with a single dvb tv card? Monday, 29 January 2007 Update: this feature is now placed in svn The most requested feature for the tvserver is to be able to watch/record multiple tv channels at the same time with just 1 tv card Impossible?... no, the upcoming tvserver does it! So what does this mean ? You can watch/record multiple tv/radio channels at the same time with just 1 (DVB/ATSC) tv card. Offcourse those channels should be located on the same transponder and are free-to-air (not encrypted) Another great benefit from this is that we finally get perfect back-2-back recordings! What about Encrypted channels ? If the channels are encrypted and you have a FireDTV/FloppyDTV device then you are lucky since multi channel descrambling is supported for the FireDTV/FloppyDTV devices. However there is a limit on the number of simultanous channels you can descramble at the same time This limit depends soley on the CAM you use. Some CAMs can only descramble 1 channel at the time while others can descramble 2-16 channels at the same time. Frodo "[/I] So, I should by in luck, because I have a FloppyDTV-C card. I've tried to enable this, but I can't seem to get it working. MP keeps saying that when I'm recording / watching more than 1 channel that "Unable to start timeshifting / no free card available" But in the TV Server I have entered that the CAM should decode up to 5 channels simultaniously. Can anybody point me in the right direction? I don't think it's a bug, i think that I'm missing something here... Has anybody got this feature operational and how did you accomplish this? Greetings, Dave [/QUOTE]

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