[linux-dvb] Newby, channels.conf, ARM-stuff

[<mocm@metzlerbros.de>]

Benjamin Forgeau writes:
 > 
 > 	Hi You All,
 > 
 > 	My first message on this list. I have a Hauppauge Nexus DVB-C card 
 > (VES1820) since last week. The software under Windows is OK, now I want 
 > it under Linux (like my MP3s and my DVD player). I'm using SuSE 8.0 
 > Pro. I'm not really sure which list (dvr or linux-dvb) is the one I 
 > need, so I try both.
 > 
 > 	Maybe not relevant, but for the information: I'm living in the center 
 > of Hamburg, Germany, my cable provider seems to be "Urbana", which 
 > retransmits everything from "Deutsche Telekom".
 > 
 > 	So at first many thanks for the great work done for DVB/VDR under 
 > linux, my card is pretty new, and I made it work with vdr (at least for 
 > some time, now it's not working).
 > 
 > 	And the first question: how to find/configure the file describing the 
 > channel frequencies? I downloaded dvr and the siemens driver, I did not 
 > find anything for scanning the frequencies and quams.
 > 
 > 	What about this ARM stuff in gnufirm?? Do I have an ARM-processor on 
 > my card (a quick look at the components, I did not see anything with 
 > "ARM")? If yes, what it is used for? I could not find any clue about 
 > this in the libdvb api documentation.

The av711x has an arm core. This has nothing to do with the libdvb api
since the api is supposed to be hardware independent. The stuff in
gnufirm is a minimal skeleton for writing an ARM application for the
AV7110 on a  Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge DVB-S board. It does not
provide any functionality yet. Just as it states in the README file in
gnufirm.

 > 
 > 	And what about data channels? It may raise privacy issues, but I 
 > really would like to know if it's possible to sniff the data packets 
 > transmitted over a cable network.
 > 

Any data that is transmitted under the DVB standard via cable or
satellite can be received by the DVB cards. Encrypted data has to be
decrypted before you can use it, otherwise there is no limitation.

Marcus

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