[vdr] Re: What CAM for SECA2 (Canal Satellite) ?

[Laurent Farcy <laurent.farcy@free.fr>]

Hi,

Reiner Rosin wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> > I'm about to build my own vdr box in order to replace (for better :-)
> > the official MediaGuard decoder for Canal Satellite here in France. I'm
> > in the process of selecting the right components before moving forward.
> >
> > Picking the right CAM seems to be tricky. I had a careful look at the
> > cam support as described at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/cams.txt.
> > Apparently, there's no choice (at least for me !). It will be a Magic
> > Module since I want to decrypt SECA2-encrypted channels.
>
> Maybe there's a second way to go: The old 1.03 ASTON CAM is supported
> by the icam-firmware. But I'm not shure if an update is available to support
> SECA2?? Any comments on this?
>  
thx for the tip. I'll try to double-check but, from what I've seen on 
various sites, the aston 1.03 only deals with SECA1.

> > 2 more questions and I'm done :
> > - I will go for a PCI CI attached to my Nova card. Is there any
> > specific hardware version number I should be careful at ?
>
> !!! This won't work. The NOVA CI interface is not supported by the driver.
> To use a CAM you have to buy a ff-card.
f... I was just about to buy a budget card + dxr3 for my config. Do you 
know if it won't be never supported, like a technical infeasability, or 
if it is just a matter of improving the driver but nobody has ever been 
motivated enough to do so ?


> Best regards,
> Reiner
Cheers.
Laurent




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