[mythtv-users] Any cord-cutters using MythTV?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 20:44 -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
> 
> I will also note that you can use google chrome with an UA spoofer to
> watch 
> most of that content on your linux desktop (note that chromium does
> not work, 
> because it lacks some of the closed codecs).

Most likely all using libwidevine.

>   I suppose if someone was really adventurous, they could scrape the
> data as 
> chrome plays it back, but that would still be a lot of work in that
> you could 
> probably have to write a script to imitate mouse presses to get the
> program you 
> want.  Not even sure if that would be possible (whether the page
> layout would be 
> consistent).

I don't think it would need to be as complicated and finicky as that. 
One would just have to script the HTTP exchange needed to get an
episode of something to play and use libwidevine (from Chrome) to
decode it, much like Kodi (and others) is doing for Netflix.

I'm not sure if this discussion is getting into the area of not being
allowed on this list as I don't think any of it ventures any further
into copyright infringement than MythTV (like VCRs, before them, and
Tivo, etc.) already goes which is to say that it doesn't according to
established fair use rules and timeshifting.  I don't think the use of
libwidevide is offside for the list either as it's just using it for
what it was intended which is to legally decode DRM'd video.

Cheers,
b.
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