Hi there, I'm the Luc attempting a driver. Current status at http://www.bsc-bvba.be/linux/dvb help and suggestions more than welcome regards, Luc Steven Toth wrote: > Derk Dukker wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> 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. > > I looked at the published spec and I it looks like it's for a newer > device yet to hit the market. Trying to read it word for word will > largely miss-represent what the WinTVCI device is, or its feature set. > (Although I was at one point convinced this document was a super-set of > the WinTVCI device). > > I also looked at the USB traffic on the current Hauppauge driver, with a > cam inserted and decryption happening. The protocol appears pretty simple. > > I don't like their URB handling and their constant polling of the device > regardless of whether it's being used or not, but that's likely an ugly > feature of the windows implementation. I suspect a Linux driver could be > written to do whatever it likes (mostly). > > - Steve > > > >> regards, >> >> Derk >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> Aidan Thornton wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> Aidan Thornton wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Steven Toth >> <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 >> <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. >> > >> > Yeah, that's what I was wondering about - it doesn't seem to specify >> > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-dvb mailing list >> linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-dvb mailing list >> linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
