[mythtv-users] Comcast encrypting World Series on FoxHD

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Nov 4 02:30:07 UTC 2014


On 11/03/2014 04:29 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/03/2014 12:58 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> Ideally, MythTV should be a bit smarter about this
>> Basically, it's a lot easier to just require/presume working "hardware"
> Yes, of course.  There's no inconsistency between those two statements.
>
> The issues you mentioned are why I specifically called it "easier said
> than done".  It's a real rats nest of issues, but, it seems that
> sufficient heuristics could be developed to do the right thing most of
> the time.

Agreed, the code is the easy part.  The thing that's near impossible is 
getting any kind of consensus on the definition of "the right thing."  
Everyone knows what the right thing is--the problem is that it's 
different for almost everyone.

Mike



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