On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM, HoP <jpetr...@gmail.com> 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-...@linuxtv.org/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 majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
