Capturing pay-channels .TS (newbie)

[Episodio1]

Can I use a DVB-S card to capture the TS and then decrypt the streams?

Or is the only way capturing from set top box to PC through firewire?

Can any DVB-S card capture TS no matter if broadcast is standard definition or HD?


Thanks.

[Episodio1]

"Can I use a DVB-S card to capture the TS and then decrypt the streams?"

Or is there any DVB-S card which I can insert my original smartcard into so I can save decrypted TS streams?


No one wants to answer in 3 days? :(

[arfster]

To use your card, you need a DVB-S card with a CI slot, which is essentially a PCMCIA/PC Card slot by another name. Into this goes a CAM (£40-£80), and then into that goes your card. You also need a few other bits and pieces to work all this, it's pretty seriously fiddly.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hmmm....

Provided your pay channels are not "MacroVision encrypted" it's already possible to capture them from your set-top box to an HDD/DVD combo device via RGB scart!

However, if you are intending to capture raw "encrypted" digital streams in the hope of running them thru' some form of software to "de-crypt" them - without any intension of subscribing/paying for them first..... I feel sure such an activity falls out of this forums "fair-use" policy and cannot be supported or condoned :eek:


Cheers

[evilclive]

However, if you are intending to capture raw "encrypted" digital streams in the hope of running them thru' some form of software to "de-crypt" them - without any intension of subscribing/paying for them first..... I feel sure such an activity falls out of this forums "fair-use" policy and cannot be supported or condoned :eek:

The way I read it, the thread originator is trying to capture two digital terrestrial TV channels that happen to be on the same mux, with a single digital TV input card.

In the UK, if I wanted to capture BBC1 and BBC2 simultaneously, I could get two Freeview cards and two computers, or upgrade to MCE2005 (with its dual input support), but surely it would be a lot cheaper to capture the raw multiplexed stream and demultiplex it in software?

[Revgen]

Have you tried Project X yet?

[evilclive]

Have you tried Project X yet?
I'll give it a try. Thanks for the pointer.