[mythtv-users] Are there any Capture Card / Digi Box combinations where the card can control the Digibox?
Fredrik Hallgarde
mythtv at tedde.nu
Thu Jan 24 10:24:41 UTC 2008
Topi Hukkanen skrev:
> Ok, can you then recommend a capture card that works on Ubuntu with
> MythTV, and supports the little "pay card" so I can PVR with the pay
> channels to which I have subscribed?
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 12:00 PM, Brian Wood < beww at beww.org
> <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
>
> Topi Hukkanen wrote:
> > That is,
> >
> > Are there any card/box combos where the card can change the
> channel on
> > the digibox, etc?
> >
> >
> > Or, I can approach this problem from a different angle...
> >
> > Are there any capture cards that would work with DVB-T, Ubuntu,
> Myth-TV,
> > and would allow me to insert the little "pay card", which
> descrambles
> > the locked channels that you pay for?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't really know the lingo yet... so I hope my
> explanations
> > are OK.
>
> I think you are asking about a CableCard solution for Linux.
>
> I don't think there is any such thing at this time, and very likely
> there will never be. Linux users are "a bunch of pirates" according to
> the Hollywood Types.
>
> beww
>
My guess is that Topi lives in Europe where CableCard is (TTBOMK) not in
use, instead we have DVB-T with a few must carry channels and additional
channels by subscription which gives you a card to insert into your TV
or most likely external tuner box (as most people currently do not have
DVB-T tuners in their TV-sets).
Solutions to use these cards in linux to descramble the signal for the
channels you are paying for exist but it is my understanding that such
solutions are a "grey" area and preferred not to be discussed on this list.
One way that is cumbersome but as far as I know perfectly legal (IANAL)
is to connect the S-video out of the external tuner box (which has the
card inserted) to an analog s-video in card while controlling the box
with an ir-transmitter...
Fredrik
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