This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
Written by: Jasmin Jessich jasmin@anw.at
Project's homepage: https://github.com/jasmin-j/vdr-plugin-ddci2
Latest version available at: https://github.com/jasmin-j/vdr-plugin-ddci2
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more information.
A plugin which creates DVB CI adapters from "stand alone" ca-devices like the ones from Digital Devices. This plugin will work ONLY with VDR version 2.1.7 and newer. MTD support requires VDR version 2.3.3 and newer.
The CI devices of Digital Devices or Linux4Media are not bound to a dedicated DVB adapter. There will be only a ca- and a ci-device or sec-device. The ca-device has to be used like every other ca-device, but the packets to be descrambled have to be written to and read from the ci-device(sec-device). This plugin obsolets the redirect method of the ddbridge kernel driver. The Kernel driver must not started with option "adapter_alloc=1|2|3"!
Use vdr -h to see the command line arguments supported by the plugin.
-A --ignact ignore active flag; speeds up channel switching to decryted channels -b --bufsz CAM receive/send buffer size in packets a 188 bytes default: 1500, max: 10000 -c --clrsct clear the scambling control bit before the packet is send to VDR -l --loglevel 0/1/2/3 log nothing/error/info/debug -d --debugmask Bitmask to enable special debug logging 0x0001 ... all what the developer thought should be logged in debug default 0x0002 ... file access during init 0x0400 ... CAM data read/write access (heavy logging) 0x0800 ... Scrambling control 0x1000 ... CAM buffer statistic (quite much logging) -t --sleeptimer CAM receive/send/deliver thread sleep timer in ms default: 100, max: 1000
I am not sure, but I guess the currect driver is not correctly implemented for some CI slot drivers. Thus we still require the active flag on some DD CI hardware. I decided to generaly activate it. You can try to set "-A" to ignore it. If it works, the channel switchover to a decrypted channel should be faster. UPDATE: This has been fixed in the driver, but you need a very recent version. AFAIK this is available currentl only in the driver from from herrnst (see below).
The default loglevel is info. The default debug logging mask is 0x0001. You can use option -d several times. All the values are ORed to one mask. Don't forget the "0x"!
If you see this messages in syslog: DDCI-Inf: no DD CI adapter found and/or DDCI-Err (ddci2.cpp,110): Couldn't open /dev/dvb/adapterX/ciY with mode 0x800: Device or resource busy then you might forget to remove the redirect assignment in the driver.
NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE This Plugin reqires a recent version of the ddbridge Kernel driver suite. You can find it here: https://github.com/DigitalDevices/dddvb or: https://github.com/herrnst/dddvb-linux-kernel/tree/mediatree/master-ddbridge The latter a version which can be used with all cards supported by the Kernel. The first with only Digital Devices cards. NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE **
The usual way is to compile VDR plugins from within the VDR source tree. Checkout the plugin source tree or unpack the tgz file below .../vdr/PLUGINS/src
To checkout the source use: $ git clone git://github.com/jasmin-j/vdr-plugin-ddci2.git ddci2
If you have unpacked the tarball, the directory ddci2-
To compile the plugin without the VDR plugin make system, look to the description in Makefile.