[mythtv-users] Hardware configuration and capabilities of MythTV

[jedi]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:06:03PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 2/7/2011 16:52, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
> >>Copy once content is not allowed to be duplicated, so in order to ensure
> >>this, the tuner card will only pass the content onto a Cable Labs certified
> >>device.  That means certified hardware, running a certified operating
> >>system, and certified media center software, and certified video hardware.
> >>  All together... that means Windows Media Center 7 and an HDMI/HDCP capable
> >>video card.
> >Definitely not MythTV or any other open source solution.
> 
> No DRM scheme can ever be supported by any open source solution.

    Well, the cable labs stuff is much more pervasive than a closed
binary. Your entire PC and the entire OS basically has to be put under
the thumb of cable labs in order for hardware to be certified for it.

    Cable Labs doesn't even want you to be able to capture stuff from
memory with a debugger. They don't even want you to be able to run some
sort of screen scraper.

> There MUST be closed binaries or closed hardware in the loop
> somewhere to handle the unencrypted content.  Open source
> conditional access systems would work just fine, but DRM requires
> that you protect the content from the user.  That is something
> cannot be done when the user can simply recompile the code with a
> patch to store the content unencrypted.