Bill Bogstad wrote: > No, you can't change the [Roku] software. i.e. Tivoization. From what > I've read, the low-level firmware will only install new system > software which has been cryptographically signed by Roku.
Ah, so that complies with the letter of GPL v2, but kills the hacker community. Nice. Aren't there provisions in GPL v3 to address this? (Which doesn't help when most code - notably the kernel - is still v2, and will likely remain so.) I wonder if there are hardware hacks to get around this. Say reflashing the bootloader via a JTAG port, or the like. I guess it doesn't matter. I'll give my money to a vendor that chooses to play nice with the open source community. > Some people have tried to use Roku's software developer kit... I gather that's something to create an app. > ...to implement a MythTV channel for Roku. Unfortunately, you have > to transcode all of your videos to H.264 to use it. Wouldn't be such a big deal if MythTV had better architecture and on-the-fly transcoding to match a client's capabilities. I read that the torrent community has collectively (where do they hold their meetings? :-) ) decided to standardize on H.264. Thanks for the Roku info. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
