Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: > >>I have been working on the Twinhan and Twinhan clone card drivers, i >>mean both FTA and CI based ones.. >> >> >>The FTA cards do look like most standard cards, whereas the CI based >>cards are a bit different from others.. >> >>The reason why the CI based cards do differ from the others is that >>there is no Transport Layer visible to the driver, but does exists in >>some form in the Firmware, and nothing can be done about it .. >> >>So here i am at a point, ready to write a layer/library that would make >>it more adaptable to DVB applications.. > > > Since you Cc'd Klaus: VDR already contains a CI library, and I guess > he's not eager to include another one. It would be nice if you > could point out to him what needs to be changed in VDR to support > Twinhan-style CI, or maybe even send him a patch. But you > better sort that out on the vdr mailing list. > > Johannes I wouldn't like to implement a special method of CI handling just for one particular hardware. You should make the interface behave just like the existing one - then you can use VDR right out of the box. Klaus
