Cam / Ci

[Ton]

Hi all,

I am looking (with a half eye) at Digital Cable possibilities....

Unfortunately, here in the Netherlands all DVB-C is encrypted. I am therefore looking at the options for GBPVR / BDA combinations with CI/CAM support...

I have, sofar, found two options:

The FireDTV/FloppyDTV solution (which should work, according to a post in the Wishlist forum), and the TechnoTrend Budget line...

When comparing these two, the budget line is substantially cheaper (70 Euro as compared to 150 Euro), and the price of the CAM and the smartcard remains the same..

For this reason, I have a strong preference for the TechnoTrend solution...

I've had a look at the MediaPortal source-code, and I have isolated the C# code they use for decryption of the encoded channels (on TechnoTrend hw). I think it would be feasible to implement this code somewhere....

Now, I am investigating what options there are to bring this into GBPVR... I can see two possible solutions:

1. Write a Recording plugin (as the ubustream / software recorder)
2. Hook in to channel-changing

I am just wondering (remeber, I'm still not sure I will do this, I mght just go ahead and buy a FireDTV or drop DBV-C alltogether), what the best way would be....

Can anyone comment on these options, and is it possible to hook into channel-changing (with something other then an external channel-changer)?

For channel-changing it would be preferred to "hook onto" channel-changing (or receive an event when a channel has changed).....

Also, I've never dabbled with DirectShow, so I don't have a clue how hard it is to write sime code that set up the required filters....

Hope someone can give me some more insight......

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Hello Ton,

I've seen the post in the wishlist about the FloppyDtv. I have one and live in the Netherlands (provider Multikabel) and I can only watch Nederland 1 with GB-PVR, so no encrypted channels. So I use Mediaportal to record with the FloppyDtv, which works good.