MediaPortal Decryption Support for Anysee Plus Coming?
15 January 2008 in Digital Television | Comments enabled
It seems like AnySee released by mistake the software development kit (SDK) for the card reader in their E 30 Plus and E 30C Plus products. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to download it since AnySee removed the SDK quite quickly. Luckily, someone at the MediaPortal forums got a hold of it which means that AnySee’s card reader can soon be supported by MediaPortal and maybe even support decryption/descrambling the pay-per-view channels.
This can be a great thing, since AnySee’s own programs have stability problems — the DVB-C version more than the DVB-T version, from what I have noticed — and sometimes the programs can stop decrypting/descrambling the pay-channels due to some weird CATR-errors (which probably means card reader error, or something).
As, “Da Silva” mentioned in the same topic in the MediaPortal forums, ProgDVB supports AnySee’s card readers if one downloads some DLL-files from a link he gave. I tried using those files with ProgDVB and, sure, it works. But, and it is a big but from my point-of-view, if you haven’t paid for the Elcom codec provided by ProgDVB, then the video is too choppy and unsynchronized with the sound when using other codecs. Furthermore, ProgDVB uses almost all of the CPU time on my computer, which makes it impossible to do anything else when it is running. So, it might be that ProgDVB will require a more powerful dual-core processor than what my single core processor can deliver.
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