bbee wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 2031A Cab-CI I bought a while ago. It was (and I believe still is) > the only single pci slot card that supports DVB-C with CAM on linux. > > Scouring the lists, I managed to get it running a few months ago, but only > after applying the fix of commenting out line 1360 of dst.c. (Why hasn't > this fix been committed yet? The card is as good as useless without it.) > I could watch video with the following command: > > $ gnutv -channels ~/.czap/channels.conf -out stdout "Nederland 1" | > mplayer - > > This would work fine, but after a while gnutv outputs lots of these lines: > en50221_app_ai_parse_app_info: Received short data After this message is verbosed, what does dst_test, app_info option say ? dst_test can be found in dvb-apps. > The stream then stops and I have to restart mplayer, but this also happens > with "-out null". I thought the signal quality might be bad so I didn't > post this before, and I left the card alone for a while. Recently I rewired > my house and the signal quality (atleast on analog) is much improved, > dvbscan/dvbsnoop etc. still work fine, but I still get the gnutv message > periodically. > > Moreover, the above command no longer works, mplayer says: > Seek failed > No stream found. > Exiting... (End of file) > > I have gone through a couple kernel revisions in the meantime, so something > must have changed while I haven't been using the card. It might also be the > CAM's fault, but I don't see why that should have stopped working or how to > debug it. Any ideas? > > Another thing I wasn't aware of when I bought the card was the fact that it > has a nonstandard method of accessing the CI, I believe it's called "high > level CI" or the like; it seems only some Twinhan cards use it and almost > no software supports it. VLC seems to have (had?) support. I remember > reading about the card on the mythtv changelog - mythtv is what I was after > in the first place, so I was hopeful I could get it running and itegrated > into mythtv. > > The fact that the years-old line 1360 fix hasn't been commited, as well as > the fact that the CI module driver dst_ca defaults to flooding kernel There are exactly 2 card types having the same identification, adding support for this one card breaks the other card. With that fix in there, in fact almost no one reported the requirement for the fix Regarding the messages, you can just change the module parameter to chose the amount of logs to be verbosed out. > messages when you use it, leads me to think the driver is really in an > alpha state and isn't being developed or supported. If this is true, why is > this driver even in mainline kernel, shouldn't it be dropped? > Is anyone still working on a unified CI framework so more software might > end up supporting the CI on this card? AFAIK, some apps supported this, such as gnutv, VLC, kaffeine, someone had a patch for MythTV as well, but don't know whether it was used with MythTV. > Should I be getting rid of this card and getting something that will waste > a PCI slot?? Anyone else out there still even using it? If it is a big headache and doesn't do what you want, better to get rid of it. Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
