[mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

[Joe Votour]

--- H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here I go again: Isn't this a fairly big development
> in the Linux/CableCard
> front?
> 
> TIVO Series 3 Cablecard
>
approved<http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/04/cablelabs_loves_tivo_series_3.shtml?utm_source=TLWeeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email>
>
http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/04/cablelabs_loves_tivo_series_3.shtml?utm_source=TLWeeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email
> 
> Tivo runs atop Linux -- no?
> 
> 
> On 4/6/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What am I missing here? Isn't this a fairly
> significant development?
> > CableCard/Linux machine available at CompUSA?
> >
> > A Linux Alternative To Windows Media Center PCs
> >
>
<http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=184428858>
> >
>
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=184428858
> >
> > MediaReady 5000
> <http://www.vwbinc.com/products.html>
> > http://www.vwbinc.com/productspro.html
> >
> >
> > On 1/12/06, Dean Collins <Dean at collins.net.pr>
> wrote:
<snip>

No, it's not.

TiVo does run on top of Linux, yes.

Despite that, TiVo is allowed to make the interaction
with the CableCard hardware a binary-only module, and
thus the Linux community would never see a single line
of code of it.

Somebody could disassemble the binary module and
figure out what it does, in combination with some
hardware tools, but that makes it specific to the TiVo
CableCard reader, unless somebody else uses the same
chipset for PC CableCard readers (I wouldn't know).

-- Joe

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