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Does it gave DRM this time too ?

• capableweb 4y ago
  Are you talking about DRM as in "Digital Rights Management"? As far as I know, cameras have nothing to do with that type of DRM, that's up to the playback device, not the recording.
  • jojobas 4y ago
    RPi won't use generic cameras, only RPi-signed ones, it is a form of DRM.
    • zyx321 4y ago
      Quite the opposite. The v3 camera does not support the old proprietary drivers, current versions of pi OS ship with open source drivers by default. It seems Raspberry Foundation didn't like the old driver any more than we did.
      • jojobas 4y ago
        Does that actually mean you can use a knock-off v3-like camera? There is no contradiction between an open source driver and the camera having to authenticate against closed-source videocore firmware.
    • capableweb 4y ago
      Ah, I see. I'm more familiar with the terms "hardware restrictions" or "vendor lock-in" in that case, as I see DRM to be strictly software enforced restrictions, guess the "Digital" in DRM throws me off or something.
• nsteel 4y ago
  If DRM is still needed (no idea) then you'd expect an official product to support it. I can't think of a use case where lack of DRM support by the camera could possibly be a problem for you.
  • ilyt 4y ago
    DRM might be not exact term here, basically "original" cameras had a chip that identified itself to the rPi driver and driver required that to work. That was because the previous camera was widely copied and they wanted to not put money into making driver for a camera just for user to go and buy cheap copy