Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Analog video restoration

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Dodge
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:53:24PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: > So, this whole MPAA nonsense got me thinking about technology for > converting old VHS tapes into > modern formats, and doing some quality restoration in the process. > > Imagine, for a moment, that you have several 1st or 2nd gen c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> LRK wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: Using highly-fallible (and this ARDG nonsense is demonstrably highly-fallible) technology to assert social/political/legal control is just simply bad. It will, ultimately, be the downfall of western technocracy. Un

[Discuss-gnuradio] cross-compiling gnuradio for mingw on linux

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Dvh
Hi Stephane and gnuradio guys, I am trying to crosscompile gnuradio on linux using the debian mingw32 package. But I am not sure how to get the python stuff working. I assume I have to convince the autotools to use all the include files, libraries and site-packages dir from python for windows o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread LRK
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: > > Using highly-fallible (and this ARDG nonsense is demonstrably > highly-fallible) technology to assert social/political/legal > control is just simply bad. It will, ultimately, be the downfall of > western technocracy. Unless we

[Discuss-gnuradio] Analog video restoration

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
So, this whole MPAA nonsense got me thinking about technology for converting old VHS tapes into modern formats, and doing some quality restoration in the process. Imagine, for a moment, that you have several 1st or 2nd gen copies of a given VHS tape, and you're able to synchronize them. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread John Clark
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: Thank you ... but digitization in general is ok, right(?), just can't do, ahem, "illegal digitization, of video signals" ... the A/D would detect "illegal digitization" and not allow it, right? As long as it didn't screw up the A/D processing and software requir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote: Thank you ... but digitization in general is ok, right(?), just can't do, ahem, "illegal digitization, of video signals" ... the A/D would detect "illegal digitization" and not allow it, right? As long as it didn't screw up the A/D processing and software requir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> John Clark wrote: Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: > Marcus Leech wrote: If they get their way, devices like the USRP would be illegal. Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Al Because the device can digitize a 'video signal'(or any other signal with in its band, or signals translated

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
Leech, Marcus [CAR:1A12:EXCH] wrote: On the "ashamed to be an engineer" aspect--look at the ARDG (Analog Reconversion Discussion Group) page at the http://www.ctpwg.org website. Given the large number of technology submissions to this group, there must be plenty of engineers who actuall

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread John Clark
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: > Marcus Leech wrote: If they get their way, devices like the USRP would be illegal. Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Al Because the device can digitize a 'video signal'(or any other signal with in its band, or signals translated to its band...), and does

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote: Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Just in case that wasn't sarcasm. On the "ashamed to be an engineer" aspect--look at the ARDG (Analog Reconversion Discussion Group) page at the http://www.ctpwg.org website. Given the large number of technology submission

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread LRK
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:39:04AM -0500, Krzysztof Kamieniecki wrote: > > Coincidentally I am moving into Congress Meehan's district this month. He is > on > the "Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property" > http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.aspx?committee=3 whic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> Marcus Leech wrote: I can't decide whether the right response to this is to laugh or cry. Or pour 1.5e8 litres of concrete around the MPAA headquarters, and the U.S. Patent Office. In effect, they want to require that all high-speed A/Ds have "watermark detection" capability, and shut th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Krzysztof Kamieniecki
Coincidentally I am moving into Congress Meehan's district this month. He is on the "Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property" http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.aspx?committee=3 which will be holding a hearing on the evil ANALOG Hole. I spoke to one of his aids,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
I can't decide whether the right response to this is to laugh or cry. Or pour 1.5e8 litres of concrete around the MPAA headquarters, and the U.S. Patent Office. In effect, they want to require that all high-speed A/Ds have "watermark detection" capability, and shut themselves down like obedi