[mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 5 18:07:13 UTC 2006
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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