HDHomerun + Phoenix Card Reader + Telstraclear digital => will this work?

[snuffles]

I have a HDHomerun and I notice that it not only does DVB-T (Freeview in NZ), but also DVB-C and I am thinking about using this to replace my TelstraClear digital decoder box.

I have used it to scan the DVB-C signals and it finds them all, noting that they are encrypted.

I also have a serial phoenix smartcard reader.

Has anyone got this combination working (how? what other software was required ?), or a people using PCI DVB-C cards?

Snuffles.

[sub]

With the apprioriate multidec plugins - yes, this combination works.

I've used newcs as the card server (which talks to the phoenix smartcard reader), with Acamd as the multidec plugin (configured to talk to a newcs server), and can sucessfully watch/record telstraclear.

[snuffles]

I have the Jaycar Smart Card reader built and connected to COM1.
Installed NEWCS 1.65 and it reads the card fine
Setup MDPlugins, installed ACamd & configured (checked the port and userid/password) but it does seem to start or talk to newcs.

I have checked the logs, but nothing seems to in there.

I try to scan the channels (1-15) and it finds nothing for digital DVB-C.

Any ideas?

[sub]

Do you see the multidec tray icon appear when you try?

Post the GB-PVR logs and I'll see if anything stands out.

[snuffles]

I only have the back round icon with a white "G" in it.
Log files attached.
Cheers

[sub]

Do you have multidec selected in your capture source setup?

Do you have the mdapifilter.ax and FFDecsa.dll installed?

[snuffles]

Yes, that is exactly how my setup looks
Yes (the two files are in the GBPVR directory)

Thanks for the help!

Cheers
(also from Wellington)

[sub]

the two files are in the GBPVR directory

Is mdapifilter.ax registered?

If so, try watching one of these channels in PVRX2.exe, then post the pvrx2.exe.log and pvrx2.exe-native.log and I'll take another look.

[snuffles]

Ah ha!

I thought just copying the file was enough ...

Doing a quick scan of the forums I noticed you have already said in reply to a similar question: "regsvr32 c:\path\to\mdapifileter.ax" is the way to register it, I'll try this :-)

[whurlston]

Open a command prompt (use "Run as Admin" if on Vista/Win7 with UAC on).
CD to the GBPVR program folder
Type "regsvr32 mdapifilter.ax" (without quotes) and press enter.

Edit: You found it while I was replying.

sub, maybe you could add this into the re-registerfilters.bat file but rem-ed out by default.