[linux-dvb] Re: newbie questions

["Adrian P Challinor" <adrian.challinor@osiris.co.uk>]

Tony, 

What do you mean by "free to view scrambled" channels? Isn't it either free
to view (and thus in clear, not scrambled or encrypted) or requires some
payment (in which case the signal is scrambled and you need a card to
decrypt it). 

If it's the latter, you need a DVB card that has a CAB interface. 


I am running 2.6 (Mandrake 10-RC1) with a DVB-T budget card and a DVB-S
premium card. I don't actually have a sat dish at present (minor problem
requiring local government permission for my area) so I have freeview DVB-t
displayed on the output from the DVB-S card. It works remarkably well. I
record on to disk just fine. ASAIAK this is the way to go. 

The kids like my "experimental" setup so much they prefer to watch in the
office on the 17" panel rather than the 42" plasma screen we have in the
lounge - with much whining about when I will use my box to replace
everything they have in the lounge! 


Adrian 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Tony Grant
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [linux-dvb] newbie questions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My setup:
> 
> hush m10000 with SkyStar 2 TV, Fedora Core 1 with 2.6.3 kernel and XFree
> 4.3.x unichrome drivers for cle266. Worldsat magic positioner DiSEqC 1.0
> feeding the SkyStar and a Worldsat analog receiver.
> 
> I am using xine (gxine is way too bad - bad image stuttering) to watch
> TV. mplayer uses too much CPU on my machine - go figure...
> 
> I am using szap and the test_dvr app to record to disk.
> 
> 1. How do I view "Free to view" scrambled channels?
> 
> 2. vdr isn't playing nice with my setup - I am about to embark on a
> shell script and cron to make my own record to disk application. Does
> anyone have such a beast?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tony Grant
> 
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