Thu Aug 28 09:29:57 CEST 2008

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Support for CAM seems to be nowadays one of the top requested features for the iptv plugin. I guess that encrypted streams are becoming more popular in the iptv world altogether.

It turns out that implementing CAM support to iptv is quite tricky. One option would be to implement support for external CAM module such as the Hauppauge WinTV-CI USB. These devices seem to be unsupported in linux so a driver would have to be written first.

I've also thought about using the CAM of an existing DVB card to do the decryption of iptv streams, but to the best of my current knowledge it is impossible to use a CAM of a certain device to decrypt streams that are not received by the same device. (Someone correct me if I'm mistaken).

Can anyone think of any other alternatives?

Got me stumped - but I watch this thread with great interest!!

Hi,

I am very interested in that, because I subscribe to a "S F R" TVBOX service that provided a (netgem) receiver very slow and does not allow the recording and backup to another media like a usb key...

Recently I tested the TV channels using vdr-1.7.21 with iptv-0.4.2 without "disable_ca_updates" and "disable_eitscan" patches and it works perfectly but only with FTA channels. I saw also that updates pids automatically from udp multicast ip address.

FTA channel: BFMTV:130:S=1|P=1|F=UDP|U=233.136.0.130|A=65000:I:0:2070=27:2071=@4:2078:0:4207:0:130:0 Encryptedchannel: France4:118:S=1|P=1|F=UDP|U=233.136.0.118|A=65000:I:0:2040=27:2041=fra@4,2042=eng@4:2048:5601,1851,1852,100:4204:0:118:0

I wonder if it is possible to modify the code of "SC plugin" to enable it with IPTV channels ? Because SC plugin support smartcard. "For most encrpytion systems this plugin supports original subscription smartcards (e.g. from a Phoenix/Smartmouse ISO interface connected to a serial port)"

Best regards.