[streaming] Re: digital copyright protection

[Christophe Massiot]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003, Miguel Barreiro Paz wrote:

> Instead, you could provide a custom video codec that's in fact a standard
> codec wrapped into a stream decryption layer. You can capture the input

If the codec is linked with VLC, it has to be GPL, and thus can be
modified by the user.

> stream, but it will be encrypted and you will still need the credentials
> to play it. Or you can capture the raw YUV codec output, of course - but
> what can you do with that, re-encode it? Not too practical - it would be
> equivalent to developing a hacked X server that captures putpixel
> operations, or recording the monitor in VHS tape and then encoding the
> raw video :)

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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