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    confused with soft cams

    guys,

    this is my first linux box, and im still a bit confused with all the cam talk.

    there is XCAM, MCAS, OctaCAM, and CCCAM, XCAS, and the one on here called PLUGIN (great)

    im not doing c sharing and just want to unscramble whatever is left to get such as DIGI TV and now BULSAT.

    what are the differences in the cams?

    is CCCAM only for c sharing purposes, or does it decode too?

    is there a guide on the differences>

    ta

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    In addition to this can anyone advise what the softcam.key is and how to use it?

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    the main cams will decode if you install the softcam for a dreambox into the right folder , and providing the cam is running

    therefore anything like cccam , gbox , mgcamd , newcamd etc can decode using the softcam key file , providing you start the cam running

    in the case of this box , it would seem you just need the softcam in the key folder var/etc/keys , so the kink dink installer allows it to be installed in the correct folder

    if you open any softcam using notepad plus or similar , you will see it is just a text file containing keys and caids etc , in specific order and in a specific manner

    then enable the icecrypt equivalent of the cam required and digi tv ( and others ) will decode ( you can test this by removing the ethernet cable and trying them out )

    this works just the same way as boxes have done for several years

    some cams can also do other tricks , like work with cards , or use N lines or C lines from servers

    so sometimes you will find one cam does a number of tricks for you , or a pair may do that , like xcam + mcas ( or on a dreambox like cccam + newcs )

    it would seem that some boxes like the azbox and icecrypt have their own variants of the main multicas cams , and so have their own names too

    many boxes use plugins to do various jobs , and one task is to install updates to cams , so we do have cam plugins designed to install those updates , or use the kinkdink installer instead , plugins tend to be done using the remote control , whereas pc tools mean you use a pc instead ( sometimes this will mean ftp )

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    thanks for the explanation, are softcam.key files universal for ALL the varied cams?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ManikM View Post
    thanks for the explanation, are softcam.key files universal for ALL the varied cams?
    you would have to talk to a softcam expert like maybe compass or kempa82 on that aspect

    it seems to me that they are tailor made for certain jobs , like a tmsoftcam for the tm 1000/5000/6000 range for instance

    and each cam can actually d/l its own softcam from plugins like satan , so if you look in a dreambox key zip file ( softcam file etc ) like minicats or satan or similar you will see softcams exist for each cam as well as a main softcam in var/etc/keys

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    can somebody please remind me how to get the digi tv ones like boomerang to work on 1 west ?

    I have added the latest softcam using the kink installer , just need to remember which plugin to start or whatever was needed ( its open on my technomate )

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    MCAS has an auto key update available now. Runs well with Xcam

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