<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:56:54 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>
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> With the appropriate firmware and (windows-only) driver, the chip<br>
> does support blu-ray decryption and playback (there's a hardware AES<br>
> engine inside the crystalhd hardware, iirc). Could be what they're<br>
> talking about there, not entirely sure.<br>
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</div>Even if you eliminate having to decode the video from the CPU needs for<br>
playing Blu-Ray disks, you still have the problem of decrypting it.<br>
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So it looks like B'com is targeting makers of low-powered (both watts<br>
and CPU power) BR players or other devices that include that capability.<br>
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Of course satellite signals are both h264 and encrypted, perhaps they<br>
are eying the satellite receiver market as well.<br>
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Good thinking on their part, but I doubt that Linux will ever get access<br>
to the decryption functions, we are, after all, "just a bunch of<br>
pirates" :-)<br>
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Thanks for the info, as always.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Dear Netflix,<br><br>There are DRM capabilities baked into that decoder. Could make DRM-based streaming on Linux a reality.<br><br>Love, Broadcom.<br></div></div>