Zaheer Abbas Merali

So I started working on working with DVB and encrypted streams at the end of last week. I have a DVB-S card (Technotrend S-1500) , a valid satellite cable, a CI daughterboard and a CAM that when given a valid viewing card should be able to decode encrypted streams. I spent quite a while with Kaffeine trying to get it working after verifying it works in the Dreambox. Kaffeine kept reporting some error code -2 which when I looked up pointed to a read/write error with the CAM. So I tried the work Alessandro has done in the SoC project this summer, and it just magically worked. I was impressed in a major way. It also works seamlessly and so allowed me to get flumotion-dvb working with hardware CAMs very quickly. If you want to play around, you will need CVS head of gst-plugins-bad and trunk of flumotion-dvb (along with trunk of flumotion of course).

Obviously, I have only tested all this with DVB-S. If someone is willing to send me a DVB-T card with a CI interface such as a Technotrend T-1500 and a CAM that supports top up tv/Setanta in the UK, I will happily test this for them and write up how to watch or stream a DVB-T channel with flumotion (encoded in Ogg/Theora/Vorbis of course).

Update: Of course I would take a DVB-C card (and a CAM that supports virgin media uk) also and try and get Virgin to install a tv package here so I can get DVB-C working.

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