[vdr] Re: AW: Re: VDR and analogue video in/out

[Armin Schindler <mac@melware.de>]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Armin Schindler wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gerhard Andreas (RtW1/WIR1) wrote:
> > >
> > > >OK - well in my case its not attractive to buy a DVB-S card when I can
> > > >receive almost no English language broadcasts with it.  It would be hard
> > > >to justify to buy the card purely for display of MPEG video.
> > > agreed on that. But afaik Sky is supposed to make Videoguard CAMs available
> > > in 2002 due to EU-legislation. There are already some pictures on the net of
> > > those. So, although not being finally sure about that, it should be possibly
> > > to get the Sky/BBC-channels with VDR then.
> >
> > Are you sure about that ? For all I have heard about Sky, they don't care
> > about any EU-legislation. It's cheaper for them to pay for breaking EU-l.
> > than to provide CAMs.
> > I hope you are right, because I'm waiting for that day too. Until then I
> > have to use the "Sky-digi-box" and no VDR for these programs.
>
> So you'd be a user for analogue input in vdr?

I guess so. Sorry I didn't follow the previous threads, but how do I get
MPEG data from an analogue input ? A MPEG encoder like Kfir is already
installed in my system. If VDR could use this card like the DVB, it would be
great.

Armin