[mythtv-users] Broadcom Hardware Decoder BCM970015

[Matt Emmott]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:56:54 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
> >
> > With the appropriate firmware and (windows-only) driver, the chip
> > does support blu-ray decryption and playback (there's a hardware AES
> > engine inside the crystalhd hardware, iirc). Could be what they're
> > talking about there, not entirely sure.
>
> Even if you eliminate having to decode the video from the CPU needs for
> playing Blu-Ray disks, you still have the problem of decrypting it.
>
> So it looks like B'com is targeting makers of low-powered (both watts
> and CPU power) BR players or other devices that include that capability.
>
> Of course satellite signals are both h264 and encrypted, perhaps they
> are eying the satellite receiver market as well.
>
> Good thinking on their part, but I doubt that Linux will ever get access
> to the decryption functions, we are, after all, "just a bunch of
> pirates" :-)
>
> Thanks for the info, as always.
>
>
Dear Netflix,

There are DRM capabilities baked into that decoder. Could make DRM-based
streaming on Linux a reality.

Love, Broadcom.
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