> > Are you sure about that? AFAIK the CAM (the PCMCIA card) only returns the > > actual descrambler key (using informations found in the TS and in your > > valid subscription card ofcoz'). You still need to descramble the > > encrypted channel using this key (this is done outside the CAM - e.g. in > > the AV711x on the rev1.3 card). And the algorithm you need here is > > something you probably never can get... so the nova card + PCMCIA card > > reader combination still misses an entity (the descrambler). > > No, you are wrong . The CAM contains a transport stream interface, to get > the encrypted stream and return the decrypted stream. Please read the EN > 50221 standard freely available at www.etsi.org .
Then either the standard is wrong or you misread it since this seems not to be the case. At least the software CI/CAM only sends the descrambler keys to the DVB card and only needs the ECM PES as input, it never sees the actual encrypted/decrypted data. I don't know which part of the DVB card does the descrambling, but there seems to be some relation between the descrambler and the streams setup to be demuxed as DMX_PES_VIDEO/AUDIO on a full card. I don't know if the Nova card has the descrambler hardware. Since there's a Nova card with a CI interface now, at least this card should have the descrambler. I don't know if that card supports feeding keys to the descrambler through the driver (current or at all). christian -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.