Manu Abraham wrote: > Steven Toth wrote: >> Luc Brosens wrote: >>> all, >>> >>> so I got the WinTV-CI from Hauppauge. Nice little thing, powered through the USB(2)-port. >>> On the box, is says "Common-Interface extension over USB". >> Cool. >> >>> There's software with it, but of course only XP and Vista... which are out of the question ;-) >>> >>> I'm contacting Hauppauge's tech support for specs, let's hope they're responsive. >> They won't be able to help, I can - but not for a few weeks. >> >> I'm expecting to release public USB protocol information during Jan 08 >> which would allow a GPL driver to be written. Right now I have nothing >> to give you. >> >> If you feel adventurous, feel free to start now by reverse engineering >> the protocol with a windows software USB sniffer, it won't be wasted >> work. The device is Cypress FX2 based (which Linux has lots of examples >> for) and it loads custom firmware (which Linux has lots of examples of) >> apart from that I think the protocol is very simple. >> >> How to integrate it with the kernel s/w demux would be an interesting >> debate. > > In fact, you might not even need the swdemux at all, as the CA stack is all in > userspace, not in kernel. All you would most probably need is an interface to > read/write a TS to the USB interface. Maybe easier would be to read the TS > off the dvr device, parse the TS and write the entire TS into a libusb interface > or similar. That would work, but it's kind of a hack. Why not have a mechanism for routing content directly into a cam and back into the s/w demux as required? That would make the solution transparent for TV apps. - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
