[mythtv-users] Cablecard spec change undermining CCI Copy Freely flags

David Engel david at istwok.net
Sat Aug 30 16:28:19 UTC 2014


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:40:43PM -0400, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> The only thing I would note was that my cablecard was not actually paired
> with my prime...it was still paired with the ceton. I simply swapped it
> out. I read somewhere that SD's interpretation of the spec does not prevent
> the device from operating just because the cablecard isn't paired. But I
> can't see how that would have made much difference to the CGMS protection
> showing up or not

Ceton does the same thing.  If the cablecard is sufficiently
authorized to decrypt the stream and it is marked copy-freely, the
Ceton will pass it on.

David
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