[mythtv] DVB CI Cam support

[Jesper Sörensen]

Taylor Jacob skrev:

>Quoting Andrew <atp4 at optusnet.com.au>:
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>> Are there any future plans to support the "CI high level interface" of the
>>DVB API ? From what I can tell only the "Link layer level interface" of the
>>API is implemented.
>> The Twinhan card uses this High level interface, you can read about it here
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>http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dvb-kernel/linux/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt?rev=1.2&view=markup
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>>  Twinhan CI cards are cheap, about half the price of other linux supported
>>CI
>>cards, so I would rather buy a few of these then a high end CI based card.
>> Anyway, im just asking, not demanding support be added for Twinhan.
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>I don't have any plans on writing such code as I cannot use it here in the
>states.. Feel free to write some code to do it.. You might want to co-ordinate
>with Jesper if you want to take this on..
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Well, I'm no expert but I think the high level CA API (or some other 
kind of abstraction/lib) seems like a real good idea. The best thing 
would of course be if we could use the same API for all cards, but if I 
understand this correctly it only works with a few DVB cards (Twinhan)? 
Do you know what the plans are for DVB API v4, or how the DVB guys 
recommend we handle this? If we are going to rework it we should do it 
"the right way" <tm>. :-)