I apologise in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding satellite DVB and Sky's implementation. I am reading and googling all the time, but I will admit to a degree of confusion.
Simply put, if I add a DVB-S card to my VDR setup, connect my SCA card to this, and have a dish installed on my roof, can I then connect the dish directly to VDR and use the sky card to decode the signal? I am only interested in the FTV and FTA channels, not in illegally decoding the Sky premium channels. (I may upgrade the card to premium channels in future. ) Will this work, or do I need to take the output from a Sky digibox?
Secondly, and assuming the above will work, can I also have a second LNB to watch channels on hotbird and use Diseqc to switch between them?
Thanks - adrian
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:17, Adrian P Challinor wrote:
I apologise in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding satellite DVB and Sky's implementation. I am reading and googling all the time, but I will admit to a degree of confusion.
Yes you can use a DVB-S card to receive all the FTA channels (BBC, shopping, god and not much else).
That's all you will ever receive. There is no CAM for Sky's Videoguard system - you will not be able to use a Sky subscription card with VDR.
Klaus' 'sky' plugin for VDR is based around taking the analogue output from a Digibox and encoding it to MPEG2 using a dedicated card.. the plugin mainly acts to run the remote control for the Digibox.
Cheers, Gavin.
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 08:46 +0100, Gavin Hamill a écrit :
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:17, Adrian P Challinor wrote:
I apologise in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding satellite DVB and Sky's implementation. I am reading and googling all the time, but I will admit to a degree of confusion.
Yes you can use a DVB-S card to receive all the FTA channels (BBC, shopping, god and not much else).
Like ITN news and CNN. From where I am (France) just having the BBC is a big plus.
Tony
Simply put, if I add a DVB-S card to my VDR setup, connect my SCA card to this, and have a dish installed on my roof, can I then connect the dish directly to VDR and use the sky card to decode the signal? I am only interested in the FTV and FTA channels, not in illegally decoding the Sky premium channels. (I may upgrade the card to premium channels in future. ) Will this work, or do I need to take the output from a Sky digibox?
The only way I know of to get hold of the Sky DVB stream for the non-free channels into VDR is to use the PACE 2200 Digibox's Digital Interface port (possible on certain versions of the box only). I.e. get the box to do the decoding and take the decoded stream. This is non-trivial though requiring programming and electronics experience. It is possible though using a Cypress EZ FX2 chip or similar.
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:46 +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:17, Adrian P Challinor wrote:
I apologise in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding satellite DVB and Sky's implementation. I am reading and googling all the time, but I will admit to a degree of confusion.
Yes you can use a DVB-S card to receive all the FTA channels (BBC, shopping, god and not much else).
For a list of FTA channels...
As I know U can use a cardspider and newcamd and a serial CI or gbox plugin and smartmouse . I'm not specialist but as I know U can share your card and use it to watch nds.
Mark Watson wrote:
Simply put, if I add a DVB-S card to my VDR setup, connect my SCA card to this, and have a dish installed on my roof, can I then connect the dish directly to VDR and use the sky card to decode the signal? I am only interested in the FTV and FTA channels, not in illegally decoding the Sky premium channels. (I may upgrade the card to premium channels in future. ) Will this work, or do I need to take the output from a Sky digibox?
The only way I know of to get hold of the Sky DVB stream for the non-free channels into VDR is to use the PACE 2200 Digibox's Digital Interface port (possible on certain versions of the box only). I.e. get the box to do the decoding and take the decoded stream. This is non-trivial though requiring programming and electronics experience. It is possible though using a Cypress EZ FX2 chip or similar.
Thanks,
Mark
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