[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1108: Frontend crashes when switching to a channel with 5C protection on Firewire

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 16:26 +0000, MythTV wrote:
> #1108: Frontend crashes when switching to a channel with 5C protection on Firewire
> Changes (by tim_trampedach at mac.com):
>  Daniel: I'm surprised that you completely closed this issue. While I can
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>  Please understand that I'm not trying to start an argument here. I work as
>  a Program Manager for a staff of over 30 people building telco software
>  and anything that locks up the application, irrespective of user error or
>  not, is an issue. I do have systems programming background, so if someone
>  could point me to the direction of where to look into fixing this, I'd be
>  happy to do.

Have a look at DVBSignalMonitor or pcHDTVSignalMonitor, both implement a
table monitoring function as well as monitoring the signal. What you need
to to fix this is to detect 5C protection, and if 5C is not present you
need to startup processing of the MPEG tables until you see a PAT & PMT
you can use. If a signal monitor exists for firewire, TVRec will start it
and will not tune to the channel until SignalMonitor::AllGood() returns true.

>From a quick search, it appears that 5C specs here: http://www.dtcp.com/

When you have a patch go ahead and reopen the ticket, and if you need more
help just send me an e-mail explaining the problem you have run into.

You may also want to detect the presence of 5C protection within the firewire
recorder so that we don't crash if it is turned on while we are recording.

Hopefully all this DRM foolishness ends soon.

-- Daniel