On Monday 14 February 2005 14:20, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > I would be perfectly happy "tuning" and storing the fully encrypted > > datastream under myth. For playback, just send it to the TV with a > > cable > > card and let it decrypt it. This would possibly mean I can't share > > my > > programs with someone else if they can't decrypt it (definately > > someone > > without a cable card or a card on another system); but that is not > > my > > goal anyway. I just want to record and playback shows at my house. > > Fast forward may be a problem if myth doesn't know where to jump to. > > If the decoder could handle junk (which I assume it can), you can > > just > > skip ahead xMB and live with the "resync clutter" I suppose. > > ... except that the encryption AFAIK includes a time-dependent > trigger. Even if you record the encrypted stream, the encryption > allows > for it not playing back at a later date. I don't remeber where I read > about that, but it makes sense (and sucks all at the same time). > > WRT hacking a PCI card, the "robustness" part of the rules > wouldn't be necessarily be violated if the card takes in encrypted > data > over the PCI bus, decrypts, and decodes to output analog. You need > pretty > small logic probes to look inside a chip.... :)
The whole scenario still sucks, though. If you can't decode the stream before it's output, you lose half the functionality of Myth. No commercial detection, no input/output filters, possibly no OSD, depending on the output mechanism. No transcoding to save space. No (or at least limited) seeking; no trick play (slow down/speed up/libsamplerate stuff). At that point I would probably have to break down and get a Tivo. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
