[mythtv-users] Viewing encrypted DVB-S channels

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Sat Jan 12 21:41:27 UTC 2008


Hi,

it works under kaffeine, so my guess is that the drivers are working,
just mythtv is not. 

Found another error message in mythbackend which says :

DVB#0 CA Error: GetCaSystemIds returned NULL!

Googling on that does not bring anything usefull for me.



 



On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:34 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hello Johan,
> 
> I have this all working in the Netherlands, with several different
> types of receiver cards in MythTV, so it can work...
> 
> Have you tried getting these channels up while using dvb-apps and
> friends (scandvb, dvbstream etc), thus outside myth?
> This to make sure your driver configuration is correct, before digging
> too deep into myth.
> Also a good source is http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Remy
> 
> 
> 2008/1/11, Johan <johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be>:
> > hi,
> >
> > I' quite happy with the setup of my mythbox, but I was unable to see any
> > encrypted channel on my DVB-S card (nexus-s). And since all dutch
> > satellite channels are encrypted, this is a major issue and I decided to
> > get a CI interface an a CAM, to use with my official subscription smart
> > card.
> >
> > To my surprise it does not work, I do not get to see the encrypted
> > channels (black screen).
> >
> > I'm running mythtv 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 7.10
> > These are some relevant parts of log and dmesg files.
> >
> > johan at phoenix:/var/log/mythtv$ dmesg |grep -i dvb
> > [   58.245472] saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
> > [   58.325342] DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge WinTV
> > Nexus-S rev2.X).
> > [   58.568247] dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0
> > [   58.593833] dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018,
> > vid 71010068, app 80002622
> > [   58.593838] dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI link layer
> > interface
> > [   58.749569] dvb-ttpci: adac type set to 0 @ card 0
> > [   59.141067] DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
> > [   59.141185] input: DVB on-card IR receiver as /class/input/input6
> > [   59.141213] dvb-ttpci: found av7110-0.
> >
> >
> > relevant part of mythbackend log
> >
> > CAM: ZCAS, 01, 02CA, 3000
> > ERROR: too many CA system IDs!
> > ERROR: too many CA system IDs!
> > ERROR: too many CA system IDs!
> > ERROR: too many CA system IDs!
> > ERROR: too many CA system IDs!
> >
> >
> > A search on Google revealed that this was once submitted as a bug, but
> > not considered a mythtv error.
> >
> > However, this error also existed in VDR and LinVDR and there it was
> > resolved by a patch to ci.c or ci.h (googling shows both)
> >
> > I can't find either file on my system. Am I missing a critical part of
> > Myth or is the solution for CAM's to work under Myth implemented in a
> > different manner ?
> >
> > The windows confidence check shows no problems, I can see encrypted
> > channels
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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