[mythtv-users] Streaming question

[Mark Wedel]

On 04/28/2018 09:48 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 08:30 Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net 
> <mailto:dlbrett at zoominternet.net>> wrote:
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>  >  If so, is there a preferred way to capture streaming?
> 
> In many cases (for many OTT providers)  these are encrypted streams that require 
> their platform specific app to decode.  You might be able to use the analogue 
> hole and a hdpvr using some dedicated streaming box that meets the other 
> protected path requirements (no idea if it can be made to work, never tried it).

  I did this for a while with slingtv before they added their PVR feature.  Roku 
+ HDPVR with HDMI -> component converter.  However, this only worked with the 
older (manufacture date, not model) roku unit - it seems like the newer one had 
better HDCP support, so thus would not work.

  The Roku was convenient in that you can send it commands over http - so rather 
than trying to do IR blasting, I could send it commands (Select, arrow right, 
arrow right ,select, etc).  This required that I make a mapping of how may 
button presses to get to a desired channel, but it worked reasonably well.