On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:29 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > >>If the PMT contains no CA descriptor on programme level and common CA > >>descriptors on stream level, the stream level common CA descriptors are > >>now moved to programme level. > >> > >> > > > >This is wrong, because different ES PIDs can use different ECM PIDs. > >Moving the CA descriptors to the program level destroys their > >association to an ES PID. > > > > > > > So what would you suggest.. ? Your quotes made clear to me that this is a hardware limitation for which this looks like an acceptable workaround, provided that the "merging" code is not meant to be used with any other (i.e. not broken) model. So I just suggest not to buy this hardware ;-) Regards, Andreas