[mythtv-users] Digital Cable.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:34:08AM -0500, Ejay Hire wrote:
> As I understand it, Digital cable is MPEG2 streams over DOCSIS.  It
> seems kind of silly to decode them, convert them to analog tv, and then
> re-encode them in a capture card.  Is it possible to skip the
> decode/analog/reencode step and suck these in directly?

I believe the controlling standard, for those who use it, is SCTE 40,
which is a collection of MPEG-2 TS's over RF.  There's some murmuring
on the lists that the pcHDTV 2&3000 cards *might* be massaged into
working on it, but whether your cableco encrypts non-premium channels 
is a deal-breaker, and we don't know yet.

There was some traffic here last couple weeks; check the archive.

Cheers,
-- jra
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