[mythtv-users] Dishnetwork ViP211

[Brian Wood]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Mark (home) wrote:

> On Monday 05 June 2006 02:03 pm, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>>
>> I have two USB ports on my Dish model 942 receiver. The ports are
>> mentioned in the manual several times, each time beginning with the
>> phrase "In the Future".
>>
>> The PocketDish device is the only thing I have heard of that might
>> actually use the ports.
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> I seriously doubt that ANY high speed port will EVER work on a Dish  
> network
> box.  I'd pray for someone to be able to hack the box somehow and  
> get a
> direct stream enabled.  HDTV recording off satellite REALLY needs  
> some help.

Agreed.

I'm just about to try recording an HD program on my Dish receiver/ 
DVR, take it apart and try to mount the hard drive on a Linux machine  
and see if I can learn anything from the drive contents.

I find it hard to believe they would invent an entire partition and  
filesystem just to foil me, but they might well store the encrypted  
stream on the drive, and de-crypt it on playback just as if it were a  
live stream off the bird.

Is it just the MPAA folks who are so paranoid about their precious  
content that they prevent mpeg streams from being accessible ? I wish  
they would put that kind of effort into making "content" that's worth  
watching.

If I can watch the recording anytime I want to from the receiver, why  
would they object to my watching it some other way? Or do they want  
the receiver to " call home" and report each time I watch it ?

Please not that I am *not* trying to steal any content, or violate  
the law in any way, nor do I encourage anyone else to do so, with  
Myth or any other system.