> > no one has figured out how to decrypt it. Since I want the premium > > content I need the cable companies settop box to decrypt it. > > So the digital television standard your cable company uses is > really DVB-C, but content scrambling is not based on DVB-CA > (Conditional Access)? Interesting, what company is it and > which system are they using then? > Rogers cable and I am just paraphrasing what I read elsewhere cable ATSC (QAM-256) I have heard from multiple sources that most of the digital channels are encrypted. Also I would not be able to "pay per view" or "on demand" stuff > > > MythTV seems too big, requires a database and X > > Mplayer seems too big and requires X > > VLC seems to big and requires X > > Well, MPlayer and VLC are not necessarily that big and I > think you can compile MPlayer without X support (or you can > install X headers and libraries to compile MPlayer, if it > can't be done otherwise). In any case, running these programs > doesn't require running an X server. I wouldn't use MPlayer > as the primary media frontend though, just as a video player. > I would like to make the system very small. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml
