[linux-dvb] Re: DEC2540-T (again)

[Alex Woods <linux-dvb@giblets.org>]

On Monday 12 January 2004 9:09 pm, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Alex Woods wrote:
> > Ah.  Well, it wasn't planned, since I wasn't aware such a thing even
> > existed ;)
> >
> :)
>
> It gets even more interesting -- some channels are not available on USB
> at all, because they're "Pay-TV" (Canal+).. according to Hauppauge,
> Canal+ demanded this because people would have access to high-quality
> versions of relatively new movies.

Well, maybe I can get myself Euro-DMCA-ed then ;)

> > It should be possible to figure out from USB snoops of the windows
> > software in channel zapping action.  Are you up for having a go at
> > producing some?  I have to admit, I'm completely ignorant of the
> > smartcard system, though.  If anyone can suggest a good bit of
> > documentation on it, please do ;)
>
> If you can tell me the name of a program which can do USB snoops in
> Windows, I'll try to do some capturing.

I use this one:
http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/index.en.php

> Isn't it possible to get more detailed specs from Hauppauge?

To be honest, I never tried asking them myself.  Got the impression they're 
not too helpful from somewhere.

> The people on the official Dutch support forum seem very helpful with
> stuff like this (like telling "secret" debugging registry keys, etc.).
>
> The forum is on http://www.hauppauge.tv/hcwforum/index.php?showforum=10
> I could ask them for more detailed specifications...

Feel free to :)

Cheers,
Alex



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