[linux-dvb] Re: Twinhan CA

[Manu Abraham <manu@kromtek.com>]

On Sun November 28 2004 12:33 am, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 20:18, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > Ralph Metzler wrote:
> > > Johannes Stezenbach writes:
> > >  > My 2¢ on this issue: If the Twinhan CI interface doesn't prevent
> > >  > you from sending/receiving raw TPDUs, then we should use that
> > >  > and be done with it. There are working solutions (libdvb, vdr)
> > >
> > > No, you cannot send/receive TPDUs with their cards.
> > > There are only some kinds of packets at application layer which
> > > can be exchanged.
> >
> > That's sad :-(
>
> I belive this issue has been raised before, but maybe it's time for the dvb
> project to follow in the footsteps of the oss->alsa transition, and make
> the dvb drivers tell userspace what features is present, and handle the
> differences in a common to all dvb apps (libdvb) library? This might as
> well break off some of the pitfalls when the transition from v3 to v4 api
> takes place..

IMHO, there could be one library, that handles hardware, and another one that 
does parse only the SI ? Maybe a better solution.

Currently because of the headache, i implemented a small parser based on 
libmpsys, which looks okay _just_ for testing.


Manu
>
> Kenneth