On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:12:48PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2004 18:58, Moshe Leibovitch wrote: > > Are you aware of any programming signals transferred by them? > > Otherwise IMHO , it will serve as "simple"� video capture. > > I tried to find out whether a box such as tvio will work here. Do you > > know if it will work even without programming signals? (ignore ntsc-pal > > issue) ____________________________________________ > > Moish > > > So many questions :) and I really do not know the answers :) > > What I am trying to solve are two issues: > 1) Capture cards > 2) Programming some interface between by Linux machine and the Yes/HOT > Remote/Box so that it can change channels by itself.
The right thing to do, is to get a DVB-C (for cables) or DVB-S (for satellite) capture card which is: 1. Supported by linuxtv project. 2. Has a Common Interface (= CI) slot, to use a decoder card. Otherwise, you could only receive the unencrypted public broadcasts (Israeli channel 1, channel 2 etc.). Try removing the "smart card" from your decoder while using it to see what channels you'd miss. Most "budget" cards -- those which come without the (completely unnecessary) MPEG-2 decoder -- don't come with a CI slot either. More over, even cards which come with a CI slot are not neccessarily supported by linuxtv (and even if supported, the CI functionality is not supported). With a DVB receiver, you can directly record the MPEG-2 video which the TV company supplies you. I think that you can even record all channels simultaneously, as they are broadcast to everybody. Another option is to get the completely-hackable Linux-based set-top box called DreamBox: http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/Bereiche/Produkte/index.php You can google to find unnumerable hacks for it. The company itself instructs you nowadays on how you can add an HDD into the box. All benefits of a DVB card apply to it as well. And it comes with 2 CI slots. - BTW, 1. Anyone knows whether separate 'CI slot' cards exist, and whether any one them can be used with Linux? 2. Can some kind of illegal software-based deciphering solution be used with Linux? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
