CI USB]
Quoted 85 lines · Manu Abraham
Quoted 56 lines · Emmanuel
Quoted 43 lines · Markus Rechberger
Quoted 29 lines · HoP
Hi Jonas
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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.
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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.
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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/[email protected]/msg28113.htmlUnfortunatelly, 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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Regards,
Mmanu
Here in Belgium and the Netherlands all channels are encrypted and besides the economics, I have very little possibility to view those channels. (not since my nexus-S with dual CI is not keeping up with the latest developments anymore).
I now own a HVR4000, but Hauppauge are only supporting the USB CI for all new cards and apparently dropped the flatcable direct connection to a CI interface. There is software available to use a USB cardreader, which I am using now. This software however permits illegal distribution of keys as well.
Interesting though is that this software doesn't use the official CI, nor a CAM, but a generic USB smartcard reader.
If a solution could be developed, which is manufacturer independent, does not use a CAM and does not permit illegal use that would be great...
regards,
Johan