RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 22 janvier 2007 à 19:54 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : I would like to make the system very small. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml Because you asked... Here you are rambling up the wrong track. Sorry! Read the page carefully, do you see HTPC or PVR? No.

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 à 21:19 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : A mail with correct subject line! Congratulations! =:-D Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S,

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:19:27 -0500 Russell Treleaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to make a small PVR appliance. I have digital cable and it is my understanding that I could get a DVB card that captures an MPEG stream but most of the content is encrypted and to my knowledge no one

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:54:40 +0100 Tony Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S, DVB-T...) by far. Agreed. The best way to play

RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Russell Treleaven
no one has figured out how to decrypt it. Since I want the premium content I need the cable companies settop box to decrypt it. So the digital television standard your cable company uses is really DVB-C, but content scrambling is not based on DVB-CA (Conditional Access)? Interesting,