Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Assuming there will be broadcasts that prevent us from accessing the data stream,
on a funny side note, read this: Microsoft aktualisiert Media Center Edition http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64919
"Während sich die erweiterten DRM-Funktionen hierzulande scheinbar nicht auswirken, berichten Teilnehmer amerikanischer Foren, dass sie nun einige Sendungen von Pay-TV-Sendern nicht mehr aufzeichnen können, weil die MCE gewisse Broadcast Flags auswerte und die Aufnahme untersage."
Thats the kind of feature that convinces me that MCE is better than VDR :D
the only way to have a chance of watching such a broadcast live in a Linux STB would be a full featured HDTV DVB card. Such a card could receive and decode the signal, without making the data externally available, except on the HDCP protected output.
Good point. On the other hand, VDR would then be limited to be a channel switch tool, something that every simple diskless receiver can do either.
The budget cards may be able to do more, on a TCPA-nailed system. But all the data streams would probably be restricted to trusted mode, and I don't see that happening in an open source OS ever.
Cheers,
Udo