[linux-dvb] Re: CAM with Skystar2

["Irek Defee" <irek.defee@ondems.com>]

It would be fantastic if somebody has courage to develop 
CAM working in standard PCMCIA slot with DVB cards. That
would require routing of streams to/from the PCI bus to 
a PCI card with PCMCIA slot. 

Why this would be good:
1. One would not need CAM interface with the DVB card and 
   one could freely select which CAM to use from the set 
   installed on the PCI bus. PCI cards with PCMCIA slots
   are readily available

2. Even more serious is the problem that there are coming 
   DVB-T receiver cards implemented on the PCMCIA card. How 
   then to use such cards in laptops, with encrypted streams?
   The only solution is to have CAM installed in the PCMCIA
   slot with stream routing to it.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org]
On Behalf Of Andrew de Quincey
Sent: 21. marraskuuta 2004 19:42
To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
Cc: Johan Reidar Moe
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: CAM with Skystar2

On Sunday 21 Nov 2004 15:53, Johan Reidar Moe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I get a Skystar2, could I then put a CAM in a regular pcmcia slot
and
> use it with the Skystar2? Or do I need to get a DVB-S card with a
built in
> Common Interface?

Nah - CAMs require the whole transport stream routed through them in
hardware 
from the demodulator. They have a customised version of the PCMCIA
interface 
for dealing with this.

You could probably plug one in and have it recognised as a PCMCIA card
(just 
as you can actually plug a PCMCIA card into a CAM slot) but neither of
them 
will work beyond that.