On Monday 08 March 2004 22:36, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > From: "Oliver Endriss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > People have invested real money into these full featured DVB cards > > > and just don't want to throw them away. > > > Plus, there just isn't any reasonable alternative > > > > Full-featured ack. ;-) > > Full-featured cards are "legacy hardware", they have no future. Thus, > future looking development should be centered around _current_ hardware, > and it has become quite obvious that so-called "budget" cards are a much > better solution, because they are cheap and allow much more flexibility > when it comes to handling the incoming data, simply because that's all done > in software.
Well, this has been discussed before. More than enough, imho. Even 'current' hardware will be outdated soon... > > And, unless there is a hardware or firmware CSA descrambler on the card, > > you will never be able to decrypt pay-tv in a legal way. > > IANAL, but I don't think that anyone can write a CSA descrambler under > GPL. > > That's incorrect. You don't needs to implement CSA, the MPEG-2 transport > stream from the demodulator is physically routed through the CAM, which > implements CSA. Thus, it can be done in a perfectly legal way. Hm, interesting. Are you sure? Afaik the CSA is implemented in the AV7110 of the full-featured cards. So I would have expected that CSA has to be implemented in the driver of the budget cards, not in the CAM. Maybe I'm wrong. Oliver -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
