On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Emmanuel <eallaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Markus Rechberger a écrit : >> >> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM, HoP <jpetrous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Jonas >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Does anyone know if there's any progress on USB CI adapter support? >>>> Last posts I can find are from 2008 (Terratec Cinergy CI USB & >>>> Hauppauge WinTV-CI). >>>> >>>> That attempt seems to have stranded with Luc Brosens (who gave it a >>>> shot back then) asking for help. >>>> >>>> The chip manufacturer introduced a usb stick as well; >>>> >>>> http://www.smardtv.com/index.php?page=products_listing&rubrique=pctv§ion=usbcam >>>> but besides the scary Vista logo on that page, it looks like they >>>> target broadcast companies only and not end users. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> You are right. Seems DVB CI stick is not targeted to end consumers. >>> >>> Anyway, it looks interesting, even it requires additional DVB tuner >>> "somewhere in the pc" what means duplicated traffic (to the CI stick >>> for descrambling and back for mpeg a/v decoding). >>> >>> It would be nice to see such stuff working in linux, but because of >>> market targeting i don' t expect that. >>> >>> BTW, Hauppauge's WinTV-CI looked much more promissing. >>> At least when I started reading whole thread about it here: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg28113.html >>> >>> Unfortunatelly, last Steve's note about not getting anything >>> (even any answer) has disappointed me fully. And because >>> google is quiet about any progress on it I pressume >>> no any docu nor driver was released later on. >>> >>> >> >> The question is more or less how many people are interested in USB CI >> support for Linux. >> We basically have everything to provide a USB CI solution for linux now. >> >> Markus >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > Well I dont know for others but it really looks interesting as you can have > multiple cards with only one CI, meaning only one CAM and only one > subscription card which is economically interesting. I don't know the details into the USB device, but each of those CAM's have bandwidth limits on them and they vary from one CAM to the other. Also, there is a limit on the number of simultaneous PID's that which you can decrypt. Some allow only 1 PID, some allow 3. Those are the basic CAM's for home usage.The most expensive CAM's allow a maximum of 24 PID's. But then you would be better of buying multiple CAM's for a home use purpose. > Also some card (at least for DVB-S) are really good but targeted towards > free channels, and in France for example, alot of good channels are not. > If the price is right (tm) I am sure a lot of people would be interested. > Bye > Manu Regards, Mmanu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
