I was wondering if there is any progress going on at the Hauppauge WinTV CI usb. I heard that a guy named Luc is currently working on it. Luc do you have any information about your progress or do you have a site where I/we can track back the progress? I also noticed that the design of the Hauppauge WinTV CI usb is quite the same as the Terratec Cinergy CI usb which I bought. SmarDTV is the vendor of it (I opened the case and on the print board stood SmarDTV). You can get the specification from the website (see also earlier emails).
I think both the devices are the same, so when one driver is created it will probably also works on the terratec cinergy ci. I don't know if the specification from smarDTV is enough...
I have had contact with the dutch terratec support and asked them if they can get me the specification to create a linux driver. He said that he would check it out if it is possible for me to have the specification, as soon as he knows more he will update me. But that email responds was 1 or 2 weeks ago. I will email him again. As soon as I got something I will post it here.
regards,
Derk
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aidan Thornton wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Yeah, that's what I was wondering about - it doesn't seem to specify
>> Aidan Thornton wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Recap: I said I'd notify the list when the spec was released for the
>> >> Hauppauge CI device.
>> >>
>> >> Hello!
>> >>
>> >> http://www.smardtv.com/index.php?page=dvbci&rubrique=specification
>> >>
>> >> Looks like SmartDTV have finally got something out of the door. Put your
>> >> email address in their database and they'll email you the PDF with full
>> >> command interface describing the protocol.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> - Steve
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how that's relevant. It seems to be the spec for
>> > something called CI+, intended to prevent unauthorised systems from
>> > getting access to the decrypted stream coming out the CAM and ensure
>> > only authorised host devices can use CAMs. I expect open source
>> > software will be able to make use of this stuff approximately when
>> > hell freezes over. If this catches on, say hello to more copy
>> > protection and bye-bye to being able to use CAMs under Linux!
>>
>> A subset of the spec will work with the CI USB device, for those that
>> are interested.
>
> anything about CI USB devices, just the standard PC card based
> interface. (It even states that it doesn't deal with any interfaces
> other than that one). In what sense does the WinTV-CI implement this -
> does it translate between standard CIs and some subset of this
> protocol done over USB? (I'm not even sure, at a glance, if this makes
> sense.)
I only glanced at the spec, but from what I'm told the command API is
implemented over USB. I suspect that Luc (the guy working on the Linux
driver) might be able to consolidate this command set, with the USB logs
he's been capturing. If not then something is clearly wrong.
I'd been promised this document during December 2007 by the vendor and
said that I'd post it here to the community as soon as it was released.
- Steve
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