[streaming] Re: Videolan, Irdeto and Amino set top boxes

[Gildas Bazin]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17:31, Graham Leggett wrote:
> 
> I understand that videolan can do the job, but I cannot find any info on 
> videolan and encryption systems. So my question is: Can videolan be used 
> to cherrypick Irdeto encoded MPEG streams and multicast them in such a 
> way that a suitable Irdeto enabled settop box can decrypt and display 
> the signals?
> 
> Or does some special magic have to happen within videolan for encrypted 
> streams to be supported? (Note: videolan need not decode the streams, 
> just transport them.)
> 

You can use VLC to forward your encrypted streams. However it can't be done 
within the "Stream output" framework of VLC because VLC needs some 
knowledge about the elementary streams themselves (frame boundaries, 
timestamps, etc...).
The new (and experimental) "ts2" MPEG TS demuxer can do what you want though 
(forcing this demux and using the --ts-out option). It will forward the 
input TS stream as is. There also is a "demuxstream" TS demuxer module 
which can be used to forward a specified program.

Hope this helps,

--
Gildas

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