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 "W?hrend 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 k?nnen, 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
