On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:15, Preston Crow wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:10 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > > no, your right, once the CableCard tuner-cards are out in the wild anyone with > > the expertise to write drivers for linux very well could. I imagine it would > > take some time for it all to happen, at which point they might be on to some > > new method of preventing themselves from having to create a new business > > model.... > > Most likely the card will only send out encrypted video using > Microsoft's DRM system. I doubt we'll be very effective in getting > these cards to work with Linux unless someone completely cracks that > DRM.
Hmmm.... interesting. Certainly possible, but the (Vista) driver would need to handshake with the card somehow to get the decryption key... unless it was hard-coded into Vista (would even MS be that stupid?). Thus it *should* be a matter of reverse-engineering a driver that could handshake with the card to get the key. Much more difficult, perhaps, but maybe not impossible... > It would be nice, but I'm not terribly optimistic at this point. I prefer to remain hopeful :-) -JAC
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