[MPlayer-users] Video File Format in LG DVR TVs

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Andy Furniss <andyqos at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Andy Furniss wrote:
>
>> I don't know what the situation is where you are, or anything about your
>> TV, but in the UK TVs/recorders are now required to encrypt content so
>> that it can only be played back on the device it was recorded on.
>
>
> Just to clarify a bit, when I say required I don't mean it's some UK law, I
> think it's part of some standard (DVB?) that manufacturers comply to to be
> able to use the logo.
>

It would be the Freeview logo I think, rather than DVB.

Also, I think it only applies to HD, where there is a broadcast flag
set in the stream - although, according to wikipedia, there is no
broadcast flag in dvb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag#European_Broadcast_Flag

Cheers

Tom