[mythtv-users] Tuner Card

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 13:00:46 UTC 2006


On 4/17/06, Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if any of the other three digital capture
> > > boards, Air2PC and I
> > > don't remember the name of the other one, could do
> > > the trick.
> > >
> > > You are totally right, I am up a creek without the
> > > listing grabber.
> > >
> > > Javier
> > >
> > >
> > <snip>
> >
> > It doesn't matter which card you use, they all
> > (basically) do the same thing.
> >
> > If your digital cable signal is unencrypted, then you
> > can capture it with a DVB card that works for your
> > country (in North America, ATSC cards, in Europe, one
> > of the DVB-x cards).  However, if the signal is
> > encrypted, you won't get anything usable.
> >
> > One possibility is that they are putting program guide
> > listings in the stream - this is called DVB EIT, and
> > it is done in a lot of DVB streams, and ATSC streams
> > (though I think it's called PSIP over here).  But,
> > because you're gettng the EPG through the Motorola
> > box, the EIT data isn't guaranteed to be correct, nor
> > is it likely to even be there.
> >
> > In conclusion - you're probably wasting your time and
> > money in buying a digital capture card, unless you're
> > going with a non-digital cable source.
> >
> > -- Joe
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
> A small correction.
> I said that the Motorola box could display EPG data, therefore somewhere in
> the cable stream there should be some EPG data and my hope was that the
> digital capture card would be able to fetch it.
>
> Is this EPG data usually encrypted? I am feeding my Mythtv box from the
> cable before it gets to the Motorola box. I can currently get non Digital,
> unencrypted channels with my PVR250 card.

yes, for cable its always encrypted.

--
Steve


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list