A. Dumas  wrote:
> Yeah definitely no decryption. Also HEVC HD is a problem. Quoting some
> reactions from the blog page below. The first two are especially
> troublesome, as they seem to be from official developers and indicate
> that they didn't aim this product at anything but the UK, really. This
> leaves the function of the Pi+HAT as a LAN streamer, with
> decoding/decrypting left to the receiving device. We (outside the UK)
> would almost certainly be better off with any DVB-T2 usb-stick.

I don't know the ins-and-outs of DVB, but am I right in thinking this is the
RF frontend, which outputs the DVB-T(2) stream?  Decoding/decrypting that
stream is then someone else's problem.

If you have a USB stick, does it do anything different?  I've only seen an
RF frontend chip and then a USB stream chip, but I think those are still
relying on software decode once it's been received over USB.  For instance,
few of the sticks here take smartcards:
https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T2_USB_Devices

The one advantage with this is it's a fixed, relatively low cost, target.
With USB sticks, especially at the lower end, the chips inside can change
between batches which makes Linux drivers problematic.

Theo

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