RSVP
3rd June 2005, 03:43
I've read the information here about directly recording DVB transport streams with great interest, but it seems that many are hitting the encrypted stream wall when they try to bypass their settop box. I'm interested in the US equivalent (directly recording digital cable streams), simliar to http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=90362 and http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=91371
In my specific case, the cable company loans Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 boxes to subscribers. After some searching around I found this picture of the internal datapath:
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/5192/ct0699f39gr.jpg
Further digging turned up several software developer documents for programming the Explorer 2000, at http://www.sciatl.com/developers/techdocs.htm and http://www.sciatl.com/developers/PowerTVOSDocs.htm
Has anyone experimented with routing the MPEG2 stream to the Ethernet or USB ports on the Explorer 2000? (Just asking on the off chance that someone has looked into it).
For a more likely scenario, what can be expected from the MPEG2 -> NTSC -> MPEG2 hardware encoder card transition for capturing, in terms of quality loss etc? Any thoughts on favorite hardware to handle this, or setups that have worked well in similar situations?
In my specific case, the cable company loans Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 boxes to subscribers. After some searching around I found this picture of the internal datapath:
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/5192/ct0699f39gr.jpg
Further digging turned up several software developer documents for programming the Explorer 2000, at http://www.sciatl.com/developers/techdocs.htm and http://www.sciatl.com/developers/PowerTVOSDocs.htm
Has anyone experimented with routing the MPEG2 stream to the Ethernet or USB ports on the Explorer 2000? (Just asking on the off chance that someone has looked into it).
For a more likely scenario, what can be expected from the MPEG2 -> NTSC -> MPEG2 hardware encoder card transition for capturing, in terms of quality loss etc? Any thoughts on favorite hardware to handle this, or setups that have worked well in similar situations?