From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp21.orange.fr ([80.12.242.48]) by www.linuxtv.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KSWqN-0004p1-BA for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:49:52 +0200 From: Christophe Thommeret To: Jelle De Loecker Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:48:54 +0200 References: <200808041904.48093.hftom@free.fr> <48A004E3.2090006@kipdola.com> In-Reply-To: <48A004E3.2090006@kipdola.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808111448.55087.hftom@free.fr> Cc: LinuxTV DVB Mailing Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] =?iso-8859-1?q?Is_it_possible_to_descramble_signal_fr?= =?iso-8859-1?q?om_2=09frontends=3F?= List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: Le Monday 11 August 2008 11:22:43 Jelle De Loecker, vous avez =E9crit=A0: > Christophe Thommeret schreef: > > Le Monday 04 August 2008 18:58:17 kurt xue, vous avez =E9crit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have two TechnoTrend DVB-C PCI card and 1 CAM, is it possible to use > >> this CAM to descramble signal from frontends of both DVB card? > >> > >> Thanks in advance for any reply! > >> Kurt > > > > No. > > That isn't a very helpful answer to his problem, is it? > He might have wanted any reply, but trying to be friendly wouldn't have > killed you. > > I'll give this a go: > > There is a way, called "cardsharing", to decode multiple streams with 1 > cam. CAM !=3D CardReader > Do note, however, that some people think this is illegal, but that's = > because cardsharing has a bad name. There are people who perform this > "cardsharing" with other people over the internet, which IS illegal. Getting control words outside the "secured" area is illegal. > Because of this most people don't want us to talk about *any *kind of > cardsharing, just to be on the safe side. > I can follow their reasoning but it still resembles some kind of > illogical censor which we should not tollerate! > But I digress ... > > Because this local cardsharing is not illegal (at least not where I'm > from), some set top boxes you buy in the store also have multiple > (working) tuners, so they perform some kind of internal cardsharing as > well. It's not a matter of cardsharing. It's of course technicaly possible to hav= e = one cam beeing feed with streams from different tuners, but not on most PC = DVB cards like the TT ones where CI is wired to the card. > Please correct me if I'm wrong or being ignorant ... Done. -- = Christophe Thommeret _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb