[mythtv-users] Uh-oh... pcHDTV slashdotted

[Dan Lanciani]

Doug Larrick <doug at ties.org> wrote:

|Dan Lanciani wrote:
|> Makes me wonder if they chose the format of the flag to cause problems with
|> pre-DRM implementations.  I hope there isn't anything in the big binary-only
|> firmware arrays in the pcHDTV drivers that will be similarly affected...
|
|The flag is a single descriptor in the PSIP data.  It really is just a 
|flag.  Easy to ignore.

But it might not be easy to ignore if the binary code embeded in the
drivers (binary for which we do not have the source) looks for it...

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl at danlan.*com