[mythtvnz] Hardeware advice

[David Zanetti]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:45 +1300, Tortise wrote:
[nvidia 9xxx chips]
> They also have HDCP incorporated along with HDMI capability.
> I am not sure if the HDCP is a concern or not for MythTV HD purposes,
> can anyone comment?

No concern. HDCP is negotiated if it's required, and the drivers ask for
it, and can set up a secure path, and your playback software supports
all that, and is reading from a source which is demanding HDCP and your
software is honouring it.

Which is really Blu-ray and not a lot else[1]. Blu-ray support won't be
forthcoming on Linux any time soon, certainly not open source anyway.

Freeview DVB-T has a broadcast flag to ask for HDCP on outputs, but is
largely unused at present. The polite request is ignored by MythTV. This
doesn't cause any problems because Freeview's streams are not encrypted.
Official boxes would honour the flag.

Also, it's worth mentioning to double check the chip you're getting
against the supported list. It's not as simple as "all 8xxx, 9xxx", or
even "higher end" cards being always more capable for VDPAU.

[1] HD-DVD also required this, but HD-DVD is dead. So also No Concern.

-- 
David Zanetti <dave2 at wetstring.net>
http://hairy.geek.nz/
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