bas-t / descrambler

Standalone version of FFdecsawrapper
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PowerVu Support #1

Closed joeusercz closed 9 years ago

joeusercz commented 9 years ago

Hello Tycho, first of all thank you very much for your work on this. I was a sasc-ng user many years ago, but only recently dusted off my old Skystar2 pci card (dvb-s only) to play with. I am sure you are familiar with the oscam-emu patch for oscam and probably know they have implemented a method for descrambling powervu. But, their method includes a hack of using a stream relay. I am interested in a better solution and I think that your descrambler (and dvbloopback) could be the best way to do that. Since I am not that great of a programmer, and you know your code best, I would like to ask if you have any interest in adding powervu to the list of systems descrambler handles? I am currently using ffdecsawrapper (because I am using a stock Wheezy installation and kernel) but I can certainly update my kernel if needed for testing. If you don't have interest and/or time, can you give me some pointers on where I should begin to attempt it on my own? Also, I read in an older issue with ffdescrambler when someone asked about a forum for support, that you did not know of one. Has that changed?

bas-t commented 9 years ago

Op 21-07-15 om 22:44 schreef joeusercz:

Hello Tycho, first of all thank you very much for your work on this. I was a sasc-ng user many years ago, but only recently dusted off my old Skystar2 pci card (dvb-s only) to play with. I am sure you are familiar with the oscam-emu patch for oscam and probably know they have implemented a method for descrambling powervu.

No, I'm not aware of that. I only use DVB-C and that's where it ends. And I've never stumbled on powervu either. Those things are way beyond my focus (beeing keep my setup valid for all future kernels). You have to realise that while I publish all of my work, so that other people can use it too, I think of my repo's primary as my personal playground.

But, their method includes a hack of using a stream relay. I am interested in a better solution and I think that your descrambler (and dvbloopback) could be the best way to do that. Since I am not that great of a programmer, and you know your code best, I would like to ask if you have any interest in adding powervu to the list of systems descrambler handles? I am currently using ffdecsawrapper (because I am using a stock Wheezy installation and kernel) but I can certainly update my kernel if needed for testing. If you don't have interest and/or time, can you give me some pointers on where I should begin to attempt it on my own?

I don't have any interest in adding powervu. And since I don't know anything about powervu, I can't give you any pointers.

Also, I read in an older issue with ffdescrambler when someone asked about a forum for support, that you did not know of one. Has that changed

Sadly, no.

joeusercz commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I was not aware that you only worked with dvb-c. I do understand the work is for you and you are sharing, and we do appreciate that. I will give it a try myself then.