[mythtv-users] DVB and DirecTV

Calvin Gorriaran calvin at houstonns.com
Mon Jul 7 13:43:21 EDT 2003


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Yes please do. I know myself and some others on the forums are trying to get our WinDVB 1.6 cards to work with mythtv and DishNetwork. Any info you can 
provide would be a great help to us.

Calvin



On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> I just found this interesting statement on Hauppauge's website 
> <http://www.hauppauge.com/html/dvb_s.htm>:
> 
> >Note: though DVB-s is the transmission specification for satellite 
> >pay-TV services in North America, such as Direct-TV, neither the 
> >WinTV-Nexus nor the WinTV-DVB cannot receive these broadcasts due to 
> >proprietary encryption schemes used.
> 
> I infer from that DirecTV actually *is* DVB-S and that if you can get 
> the decryption ("Common Interface" stuff) working, you can use DVB-S 
> cards with DirecTV, removing any need for the settop boxes (incl. the 
> decoding, analog S-Video and encoding involved) and instead getting a 
> raw MPEG2 stream from the satellite. This confirms what at least one 
> person suggested so far.
> 
> Unfortunately, their statement also suggests that it's impossible to 
> commercially (legally) get CI modules to decode the stream, like you can 
> for other providers, e.g. the subscription-based TV network Premiere in 
> Germany. I hear there are "software-based" decoders, essentially 
> crackers, but they may be illegal to use, publish or provide help with. 
> It most likely is illegal (by now, with the new EU copyright laws :-( ) 
> for *me* to provide you any help or hints with that, so please don't 
> even ask. If you got this to work (ideally fully legally) and it's legal 
> in your country to help others with this, please set up a webpage and 
> post the link.
> 
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