[linux-dvb] Re: Software decoder

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

polom@convergence.de wrote:

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> Subject:
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> [linux-dvb] Re: Software decoder
> From:
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> polom@convergence.de
> Date:
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> 05 Feb 2002 12:23:52 UT
> To:
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> Matt Tovey <Matt.Tovey@munich.sgi.com>
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> To:
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> Matt Tovey <Matt.Tovey@munich.sgi.com>
> CC:
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> "linux-dvb@linuxtv.org" <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Matt Tovey (Matt.Tovey@munich.sgi.com):
> 
>>A friend of mine who uses DVB-s under Windows only (!) sent me the
>>following link:
>>
>>http://www.4freeboard.to/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
>>
>>He also writes:
>>
>>
>>>ja, es funktioniert wirklich .... die dvb-s und multi-dec 8.0 Software.
>>>Damit kann man jetzt alle Irdeto & Seca Programme ohne Cam-Modul und
>>>Erweiterungs-Platine
>>>entschluesseln. Das Cam-Modul wird per Software emuliert .
>>>
>>>Habe es gestern nacht zum laufen gebracht.
>>>
>>For the non-german speakers out there, this is a software emulator of
>>the CAM module (no HW CAM required), and my friend has used it to decode
>>Irdeto and Seca programs.
>>
> 
>>I'm curious - is there any interest to get such software working under
>>Linux, or is this something which is deliberately avoided?
>>
> 
> I am pretty sure that something like that is already running under Linux.


I'm not so sure about that. There is almost no software from that area 
that runs under Linux.


> And I guess we should deliberately avoid to discuss such semi legal things on
> this mailing lists or some "interested parties" will shut this whole site
> down.


Watching Pay-TV programms is only illegal when you have not payed for 
them. So, as long as you have a legal subscription, nobody could blame 
you for using such a soft (in theory, in praxis there might be problems).

But you are right, this is most likely not the right forum for such 
discussions.

Andreas

> 
> Just my 2 cents...
> 
> Bye... Szymon.
> 





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