[mythtv-users] multiple tuner question

[Gregorio Gervasio Jr.]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:34:11 -0700, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> said:

b> Tom Trelvik wrote:
[...]
>> Digital cable runs over TCP/IP?!

b> Uh-huh, that's what makes it digital =). It is essentially
b> a cable modem (or is a cable modem essentially a digital
b> cable device?). When the tech came to set up my first cable
[...]
b> Well, the first page of a google search for digital cable
b> protocol has this:

b>    http://www.scte.org/documents/pdf/SCTE402001DVS313.pdf

        Thanks for the link, but that document says nothing about TCP
and only mentions IP in reference to out-of-band transmissions.  It
says video and audio (plus other information) use the MPEG-2 Transport
Stream protocol (ISO/IEC 13818-1).

b> I've never really looked into it because I've assumed that if
b> it was easy to grab the MPEG streams everyone would already
b> do it. I'm sure if you google you'll find something about why
b> this can't be done easily.

        Looks like it's because of scrambling+encryption.
-- 
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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