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To: Joe NYC who wrote (59958)	10/24/2001 4:14:23 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> Hmm... That sounds interesting. Is it just for scrambled > analog signal, of for digital as well? Don't you need > some kind of "acquisition" card, or can you just use an > analog video-in for this? This is something for TV cards. > C is C, no matter what platform you are using. I guess > you may be talking about user interface, where coding can > be a lot different between the platforms. I don't know > about the difficulty in writing for some Linux API vs. > Windows API. I'm talking about something altogether different. xawtv, the TV tuner program of choice, can be obtained in source code. If I wanted to and I had slept enough, I could trace through the code, find the areas where it reads the TV signal pixels, and have it go through a filter that inverts the colour and normalizes the vertical hold and soforth. I could then recompile it, and I'd have my very own descrambler. I cannot do that with Win2k or Win98 or whatever, because there is no source code freely available for me to play with. This is good for the companies, I'm sure, but it is bad for users like me.