[mythtv-users] DVB Encrypted channels problem

[Marco Coli]

Anyone using DVB-S with Myth?

Marco Coli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> do you know if it's planned to resolve this big issue? Now, for me is 
> impossible to use Mythv with my Hauppauge DVB-S Card, because now and 
> then some channels usually in clear are encrypted. If you go on one of 
> these channels with the frontend, you are lost.
> 
> The only possibility you have is to enter into the database and hack a 
> little to replace the starting channel to a free channels, but this is 
> frankly not an applicable solution for simple usage. I searched the list 
> for solutions, but without luck.
> 
> I found only this message (I report it down here) that was optimistic on 
> this issue, but is very old (march 2004), and nothing is happen 
> meanwhile. Thank you.
> 
>> It's a MythTV issue, and not a driver problem. The cause is that the 
>> code in
>> MythTV does not check if there is an incoming stream before ending the 
>> tune.
>> This is partly because of the layout of MythTV Capture Card code (ie. 
>> that a
>> card is split into a tuner and it's recorder), and partly because of me
>> beeing lazy when I reimplemented the DVB layer.
>>
>> I've got a early adopter solution in my own tree, but it's kinda 
>> unstable.
>> What it provides is a messagebox on the frontend (if no stream is 
>> available)
>> that gives the choice of trying a bit more or backing out to the menu 
>> (which
>> could be easily extended to support changing to another channel). If you
>> would like a rough patch against cvs to work with, I'll be happy to 
>> provide
>> some diffs against my tree.
>>
>> Kenneth 
> 
> 
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Saluti - Marco Coli