Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > >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. > > 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. The problem is that the Twinhan cards hide access to CI behind a microcontroller, and the protocol for that uC doesn't allow the implementation of the link layer protocol which is used by other cards :-( IIRC there was some discussion with Ralph a while ago about this. What Manu implements is (I hope) not a Twinhan-specific protocol, but a generic application layer protocol that could be used for similarly crippled hardware. It's up to you to decide if you want VDR to support that. Meanwhile I suggest Manu explains to interested people on the vdr list what would be necessary to support Twinhan-CA, if someone is interested they can write a patch. Johannes
