[streaming] Re: Satelitte reception and recording

[Alexis de Lattre]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003, Yngve Johansen wrote :
> The National library of Norway is currently looking for a way to receive a
> few norwegian TV-channels from a satellite (24 hours a day) and to store the
> channels to disc on-the-fly. We may think VideoLAN is the solution. What do
> you think?

Yes, VideoLAN is one solution above others.

> In your documents you refere to the "Hauppauge WinTV Nova card" for
> satellite reception. According to the specifications of  this card, it the
> seems that this card can only be applied for reception of so-called
> "free-to-air digital TV".

That's right !

> Does VideoLAN support other cards that make reception of Pay-TV possible
> (ex. "Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s" with the "Common Interface Module")

We also support the Nexus-s. We made some tests with the Nexus-s and
the Common Interface Module, but we were unable to get the unencrypted
digital stream, apparently because the decryption is made inside the
MPEG-2 decoding chip ! So you can save the digital stream on a disk, but
it will be encrypted. We haven't found a solution to decrypt an
encrypted digital stream without decoding and re-encoding.

-- 
Alexis
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