Hello Christophe, Christophe Thommeret wrote: >Le Lundi 09 Janvier 2006 23:51, Bas Neggers a ?crit : > > >>Update: >> >>as seen before on >>http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-September/004871.html, >>tuning, scanning and viewing of FTA channels now seem to work (using Xine). >>But now the encrypted channels seem to be unavailable, xine does not show >>them (buffering 100% > 0% > game over). We have about 10 FTA on cable here, >>rest is encrypted :( >> >> > >I don't know if your device driver support CI, but anyway xine won't play >encrypted channels. The application as to communicate with the cam to enable >decryption and xine does not implement that feature. VDR does, and maybe >mythtv. > > > Unlike other DVB cards, the Twinhan and it's clones does support Conditional Access in firmware, and only a userspace application is required to get descrambling going on them. These cards moreorless resemble FTA cards in their operation as the CA stack is not necessary for their operation. Just sending the CA_PMT message to the cards helpd in descrambling the streams in firmware, and the relevant stream can be watched with xine or mplayer or any other player available. There requires a userspace application to send the message to the card, which the format is somewhat similar to the EN50221 protocol specifaction for the application data units. Manu
