Jean-Claude Repetto wrote: > Luc Brosens wrote : >> >> I sent a question to technical support at KNCOne.de, and they confirm >> the bad news that Manu Abraham gave me : the CAM/CI on the TV-Station >> DVB-S can >> only be fed data from the tuner, not from a file. >> >> Pondering my options, I see two of them : >> >> (1) obtain a PCMCIA slot, and stuff my CAM in there. This may be the >> easiest route to take, as the CAM will still be there to do most of >> the work. I >> would be loosing a PCI slot however, and the capability of using two >> tuners (anyone know of a PCI-Express based adapter card ?) > > Won't work. > >> (2) get a smartcard programmer, connected serially or through USB, and >> port "poor man's cam". It looks like I wouldn't be able to use the CAM >> in this >> scenario, and it would need to be emulated (which, as I understand it, >> is the bulk of "poor man's cam" coding). >> >> are there more - easier - options ? > > I see another option : use a WinTV-CI from Hauppauge. The only problem > is that the Linux driver does not exist yet, but may be for your > application you don't need a driver, a user level application should be > enough. > > Jean-Claude > > Jean-Claude, thanks for your reply. I didn't know of the existence of the WinTV-CI yet, but it looks like it could solve my problem. I'm going to try to find one and have a look at it sincerely, Luc _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
