[mythtv-users] Frontend as cable settop box--using Live-TV

[Kenni Lund]

2013/8/8 Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>:
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/08/13 19:15, Kris B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Your description about the quality of the LiveTV code (as it has
>>>> evolved,
>>>> not blaming anyone for that) is why I framed my question the way I did.
>>>> I've gotten this impression after reading the mailing list for years:
>>>> There may still be issues there, for some people, that require a
>>>> particular
>>>> sequence of events only on certain configurations to trigger, but even
>>>> after finding identifying them and opening a ticket, the only way to
>>>> really
>>>> fix things is, as you say, with C-4 and start from the ground up.  I
>>>> know
>>>> the developers know this.  I also realize that starting from the ground
>>>> up
>>>> is alot of work and why it hasn't and may never happen.  Fine by me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Even still - just throwing it out there - in the future if for some
>>> reason Myth developers ripped out Live TV in their code - all you would
>>> need to do is get an HDHomeRun, and run a viewing app as an external
>>> program (which might even be a good idea now for those who want to
>>> surf)... I don't think that will happen, but there are workarounds that
>>> I'm sure someone could come up with for everyone.  If Myth doesn't know
>>> about the tuner, it can't use it.
>>>
>>> I do watch Live TV several times a year - I'm a farmer (and an IT guy
>>> for a bank).  Needing immediately knowledge of weather during storms is
>>> important.  Also during events of importance (Zimmerman verdict was one
>>> recently)... for the most part, though - if if is a show, it gets
>>> recorded - we don't surf like the old days.
>>>
>> There's always the Russian option - most TVs these days actually have
>> tuners in them. If someone wants to watch Live TV then perhaps they could do
>> exactly that? It's the same signal that goes to all the tuners in the
>> cupboard, after all. And it saves recording and viewing something you
>> probably didn't want to save anyway, while myth carries on recording all the
>> important stuff.
>>
>> --
>
>
> I don't know of a TV that has an encrypted tuner built-in.

In DVB-countries all recent TVs have a builtin common interface which
you can use for decryption of encrypted channels.

Best regards
Kenni