Udo Richter wrote: > ... > Basically, I think the future lies in budget cards combined with > hardware accelerated graphics cards for output. However, there's no > point in wasting time on this topic until we know for sure that there > will be open access to the video stream, and it doesn't look like that > in the moment. Assuming there will be broadcasts that prevent us from accessing the data stream, 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. Even if it wouldn't be possible to record such a broadcast, we could at least watch it live with the STB of our choice. A solution with separate budget DVB card and hardware accelerated graphics card could never do that, because there the data stream would have to be allowed to run through the PC's CPU - and I don't think they would allow that. Klaus
