[linux-dvb] Feature Request: CAM kernel module

[Manu Abraham]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
>> This has been already discussed here before :
>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@linuxtv.org/msg05523.html>
>>
>> It doesn't seem so easy, because the PCMCIA interface is not used in a
>> standard way.
>>
> 
> Ok, I've read that thread now, but there's something strange. I once had a
> cam which could be flashed in a PCMCIA slot. Doing a "lspci -vvv" worked,
> too.


Yeah that is possible. This is just loading a new firmware for the CAM.


> So, where's the difference to a PCMCIA interface except and additional
> logical interface which would have to be handled by a userspace program
> anyway?
> 

You will have to route the Transport stream from the DVB card to the
PCMCIA module and back, after doing that a lot of juice would be gone
from your Host CPU.

Don't forget that you have to decode the MPEG stream as well

Manu