I would assume that the rules for content protection would bar user created plugins from having access to the data. The Ofcom document had some comments from content providers about updates to the tables being necessary in the future if it gets broken, but it doesn't look like there are any firm plans there.
If Freesat is using the same system of Huffman tables then what happened there? Are the tables public knowledge yet? Adam On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Phil Lewis <backst...@linuxcentre.net>wrote: > So is this just going to be another region-coding like affair where > 'people' release cracked firmware or just press a few magic button > sequences on their remote to remove this protection? And what about > those vendors who sell DVRs that have community contributed plugins > (e.g. like Topfield did/does); that's just going to make a mockery of > this mockworthy content protection. > > - Phil > > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 18:21 +0100, Mo McRoberts wrote: > > On 14-Jun-2010, at 18:14, Alex Cockell wrote: > > > > > So i'll have to buy box after box to watch content? > > > > doubtful. those which have been sold for FVHD already will have in-built > support for the mechanism (it's specced by the ETSI DVB standards), but will > likely need an update to get the decoding table. > > > > that is, unless they're going to use the same decoding table as Freesat > (given the fact that it was claimed to have been generated from a large > sample set in order to ensure optimal compression rates, it _should_ be)… > > > > M. > > > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
