[mythtv-users] DVB and DirecTV / DishNetworks (was: DVB and D irecTV)

[Shirley, Mark R]

I've read extensively on various "underground" websites
that it's quite possible to decrypt Dish/Nagravision and play
it on your DVB-s card, however, the link is safely locked away
at home, and you'll simply have to wait for me to get home and 
mail it out to you!  I don't however, know how well the 
DVB decoding would integrate with v4l/myth.  One would assume
that v4l would be a requirement, but one has been wrong before... :P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Bucksch [mailto:linux.news at bucksch.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:35 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] DVB and DirecTV / DishNetworks (was: DVB and
> DirecTV)
> 
> 
> Zachary S. Bedell wrote:
> 
> >I've seen software decoders that work for Nagravision 
> (DishNetworks) and a few other various systems, but I don't 
> think anything like that is even *possible* for DirecTV.
> >
> Ah, I didn't know that DishNetwork is easier to decrypt. This 
> lines up 
> with what I just found on the linuxdvr list 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=+site:www.linuxtv.org+Nagravis
> ion+CAM>. 
> One msg says that they use a modified variant of the Nagravision 
> encryption and that you need a unique box number (matching the smart 
> card) to get it to work at all (in theory), and that number 
> is very hard 
> to acquire even given the box. No commercial decoders sold.
> 
> The Google search also shows that it's appearantly an old 
> subject, and I 
> wouldn't want to waste everyone's time by discussing it here again 
> (sorry for opening the thread). If anyone knows any competent 
> summary of 
> the current situation, please post the link, though.
> 
> >(Isn't it wonderful to live in a free country where you can 
> get locked up for even talking about decrypting a signal, 
> even if you're already paying DTV $90 a month for it?)
> >
> Definitely. I thank our glory politicans every morning when I 
> stand up.
> s/free/claimed-to-be free/
> 
> >The other idea I had involved finding a way to sample the 
> raw MPEG data out of a real DTV receiver.
> >
> One msg said that people tried that as well, and DirecTV was 
> furious to 
> scotch that. I guess it's the media mafia^Wkartell^Windustry 
> behind it.
> 
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