Features

• Simulates a SECA CAM using a phoenix interface, and implements
  this features
  • ECM support: Yes
  • EMM support: No (Currently, under development) It will be available but only in Technotrend SDK based software, like ProgDVB as the MultiDec API can not provide the necessary functions to perform the job.
    
    
• Remote phoenix
  
  • You can set your phoenix in almost any computer around the world or your local network, this means that you can share your phoenix and smartcard with a friend using internet. In example my phoenix is located in a different computer than my DVB-SAT card and I'm using the phoenix and the card in a different computer than the SAT card. Another usefull use is:
    
    If you have more than one DVB SAT card and wants to record 2 channels at same time (two football matches, two different movies, ...) you can share your smartcard for both SAT cards. This feature is valid for up to 8 different channels or SAT cards at same time aprox.
    
    You can think in this feature in something like CAFE, but it is a bit different. In fact it was present in 1.00 but it has been hidden from the configuration menues.
    
    
• Audio broadcaster
  • This feature allow the user to broadcast an audio PID over a local network, or even internet. You can listen to this PID using WinAMP and some other players that supports MPEG streaming reception. Using WinAMP you will experience a delay from the image of around 1 second, this is very annoying, specially in a dialogue section. You can configure your WinAMP to reduce this delay, setting the MPEG streaming buffers as low as possible (16 K) and reducing the buffers in the output module to the smaller values possible.
    This is a useful feature to ear two PIDs at the same time.
    Warning! If you select the current audio PID to be broadcasted
    you can hangup your TV software or even your computer.
    
    
• PID logger
  • It can send all information from a selected PID to a file in stream mode. This mode is compatible with the standard MultiDec API. You can send the information to the LOG file in "BitFilter" mode, but this mode can only be used in Technotrend drivers based software, like ProgDVB.
    
    
• Event Information Table
  • This feature does not work in MultiDec, only in ProgDVB and Technotrend SDK software based programs.
  • It shows information about current and next program in the current channel, and all channels in the same transponder. You can adjust the time using the "Time OffSet" in hours. Some television providers sends the EPG in this format too, like "Via Digital", set the data channel "NDL" (Nokia download) and you will see the complete information for programs in almost all channels in the next 3 days. Some channels names could be missing and they will be displayed as a number, but change to the desired channel and restart EIT and the name will be correctly set.
    
  
  

Known bugs

• (This is not a PMCAM bug) Some smartcards can not boot up, some users have reported that raising the Phoenix voltage they get the card to work. The main reason is that the new SECA2 cards needs more power to run and some phoenix interface can not provide this power without raising the voltage a bit.