[linux-dvb] Re : Slightly OT Satellite question

[Patrick GUENEAU <pgueneau@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi Dennis,

If you want to be able to decrypt SECA channels, you have to go with an 
ASTON CAM Module and a Full Featured Card.

For the moment, the main issue is tbat ASTON CAM is not well supported 
by the linux driver/firmware.

For instance, SECA2 has just arrived in France and it is not working 
with current driver.

I think Dutch channels are still using SECA1 encryption ; but some day 
you will have the same problem as I have with SECA2.

The other problem with ASTON CAM is multiple audio pids support. It 
seems it is not a real problem on Dutch channels are most seem to have 
only Dutch subtitles with original version audio.

I am very pessimistic concerning proper ASTON CAM support with 
Convergence linux driver as Convergence is not using our cards 
(Technotrend ones) to develop DVB platforms for their clients (at least 
it is what I understood from previous threads on this topic).


Regards,
Patrick.

Dennis Noordsij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Enough for the cable stuff for now, new question :)
> 
> I live in Finland, but am originally from Holland. There are a lot of Dutch 
> channels on Astra, but all-but-one are encrypted, afaik with SECA. I'd like 
> to be able to get some shows from there to follow what is going on over 
> there. 
> 
> Suppose I would get a dish setup (which I can't where I currently live 
> unfortunately - but I'll move for it! :) to receive Astra, what do I need to 
> do to receive those encrypted channels, and, most importantly, will that work 
> with the linux DVB drivers?
> 
> I suppose I could get the smartcard through a relative, and pay the 
> subscription from a Dutch bank account, which would all be legal (lots of 
> strange Dutch people go on holidays with a satellite dish on top of their 
> campervans so they don't miss a single day of soap programming! For German 
> fans, that'd be the original of Gute Zeiten Slechte Zeiten! :) then find the 
> appropriate CAM module, and if it's supported in Linux, I'd be in business? 
> :)
> 
> A friend has an FTA Astra setup close to where I live, with a 85cm dish I 
> think, (or thats what I read is what is needed this far up north, the dishes 
> here point to ground more than they point up!! :) and reception is fine, 
> except during snowstorms :)
> 
> I am not 100% sure which CAM/CI/smartcard etc is used, so I am hoping someone 
> on this list knows, afaik all Dutch channels use the same system, as the 
> encryption is only used because the rights have been paid for Holland only, 
> the channels themselves are not pay-channels (standard package on cable in 
> Holland).
> 
> Cheers,
> Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> 




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