[vdr] Re: Nagravision decryption

[Dariush Forouher <dariush@forouher.de>]

Am Mon, 2002-04-15 um 20.20 schrieb Stan Moon:
> does anybody know if Nagravision is hardware or
> software based at the recieving end?  What I'm asking
> is if all you need is a CI to get it or if you need
> hardware like chips to decode it.  A few channels in
> Europe are encrypted this way, but most are just DVB
> or have 'Irdeto 2' also.  I thinking you do need a
> chip to get decrypt it, Dish Networks here in the US
> wants you to buy their box so they put a chip in it
> you have to have to buy there box, at the same time
> makeing it impossible to get those channels on your pc
> with a DVB-s card and a CI and CIM.

AFAIK Nagravision only encodes analog PAL/NTSC video like the old
Premiere.
DVB uses other encription methods like Irdeto.

Dariush