How to handle independent CA devices

2010-09-09 Thread rjkm
Hi, cards like the Digital Devices DuoFlex S2, cineS2 and upcoming hardware (octuple, network, etc.) have independent CA devices. This means that instead of having the stream routed from the frontend through the CI and only then into memory a stream can be sent from memory through the CI and bac

Re: How to handle independent CA devices

2010-09-14 Thread rjkm
Hi Johannes, Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > So, I would like to hear your opinions about how to handle such CA devices > > regarding device names/types, the DVB API and user libraries. > > it looks like there isn't much interest from DVB developers > in that topic... I'll try... > >

Re: How to handle independent CA devices

2010-09-17 Thread rjkm
Manu Abraham writes: > > You still need a mechanism to decide which tuner gets it. First one > > which opens its own ca device? > > Sharing the CI (multi-stream decoding) in such an automatic way > > would also be complicated. > > I think I will only add such a feature if there is very high d

Re: [linux-media] How to handle independent CA devices

2010-09-17 Thread rjkm
Klaus Schmidinger writes: > VDR already has mechanisms that allow independent handling of CAMs > and receiving devices. Out of the box this currently only works for > DVB devices that actually have a frontend and where the 'ca' device > is under the same 'adapter' as the frontend. > I could ea

Re: Cinergy 2400i - Micronas APB 7202A Open Sourced!

2009-12-17 Thread rjkm
sijones2...@o2.co.uk writes: > > > The PCI-e bridge (MICRONAS APB 7202A) has now an open source > driver. > > It is available here git://projects.vdr-developer.org/mediapointer- > dvb- > > s2.git > > could this now be pulled into the main V4L source? as it has been > > brought upto da