[mythtv-users] HW CAMs, CI support, legal subscription viewing (DVB-S2)

Emmanuel eallaud at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 01:06:53 UTC 2010


Michael T. Dean a écrit :
> On 01/17/2010 08:09 AM, Mark wrote:
>   
>> David Kubicek wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello to you all.
>>>
>>> I'm bringing up "the big" question - there is some general knowledge
>>> about some cards' CI's (mostly KNC1) working with Linux - at least
>>> Kaffeine, if not MythTV. Most of these reports are rather old so I
>>> looked into MythTV sources and current dvbcam.cpp seems to support
>>> CAM menus, selections, etc. I guess the developers came a long way
>>> since those dark days. There must have been people actually testing
>>> this code, I'm kindly asking these people and anybody else with some
>>> experience to step up and share their tips. :) Like you, I don't want
>>> to settle for less - MythTV is the best in this area.
>>>
>>> However, there aren't many DVB-S cards with CI slots supported by
>>> Linux and my impression is that those which work are incompatible
>>> with MythTV. I've searched and read the whole -dev and -users lists
>>> and it seems to me that most MythTV enthusiasts are eventually forced
>>> to turn to the "dark side" and end up using borderline-legal sortcam
>>> setups. After that, nobody will respond to their questions, because
>>> such discussions are forbidden here. I conclude that there are
>>> basically two options - watch FTA (useless) or go rogue and loose all
>>> sympathy and support, which is impractical to say the least. :)
>>>
>>> I'd like to prevent this happening to me. I'm going to build a new
>>> MythTV box and I would prefer if everything was stable, clean, legal
>>> and without non-documented hacks like DVB loop devices. MythTV code
>>> shows there have been some development in this area and there were
>>> people with some HW CAM's writing and testing the new code. This
>>> means there really is a working HW CAM for MythTV. Also, with the
>>> majority of people here against softcams, there must be many users
>>> with HW CAM cards. I don't think people would have gone all the way
>>> to polish (rather complicated) MythTV setups just for FTA viewing.
>>>
>>> My question, my plea is to hear from you what you've been through,
>>> how you ended up realizing your setup and any tips along the way.
>>> Everything to do with DVB-S2 (or even DVB-C) and MythTV. I really
>>> hope to collect some hard-to-get information and put it up on the
>>> MythTV wiki for other people like me. Please, do let me know. 
>>>       
>> You'll get no help here.  Go here:  dvbn.happysat.org.   Keep this
>> stuff off list.
>>     
>
> Talk of legal hardware CAM is fine here.  Just make sure it stays away
> from the softcam topic or other ways of circumventing the provider's
> access protections.
>
> As a matter of fact, I'd very much like to see some people who have
> legal hardware CAM usage implemented in MythTV provide some information
> to help people who want to use it (and whose providers allow it).
>   
Well then just my 2 cents here.
Here in the French West Indies (same encryption as Canal Satellite in 
mainland France) my DVB-S2 card is TT S2-3200 with CI daughter card. CAM 
is astoncrypt (version number is important but I dont remember now), 
which works great (it was already working with my DVB-S TT-1500) and has 
worked for the last 4 years with no problem, can decode 2 streams 
simultaneously.
HTH,
Bye
Manu


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