[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au foxteldigital

[Phil Vid]

On 7/10/06, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
<michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> > No reason to. Austar use Irderto for there encryption and therefore a
> > DVB-S with a CI works fine normally. I say normally because my card is
> > having problems with MythTV SVN HEAD and kernels > 2.6.15. But I was
> > running fine on 2.6.15 with an older MythTV (I think 0.19 was fine).
>
> I thought Foxtel used NDS VideoGuard?
>
> I would be interested to hear if anyone acutally has a PCI card which can
> directly decode the foxtel digital signal - I have to use the video out from
> my STB into a hardware mpeg encoder.
>
> M.

Both the Hauppauge NOVA-S-CI and the budget Twinhan Sat-CI cards can
do this. You need an Irdeto CAM and a subscription to the original
Foxtel satellite service (not Foxtel Digital). Fox digital uses NDS
conditional access.
The Hauppauge card is expensive but you can get your hands on the
Twinhan for less than $150 AUD.
I have the original Foxtel service running currently with a Twinhan
but have tested it with the Hauppauge. The only problem I've found is
that the Irdeto CAM version is flaky and tends to require a complete
card reset to make it record reliably. This is easier to achive with a
hack with the Twinhan card rather than the Hauppauge.

Let me know if you need any more info.