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There are several hundred or thousand DVB-S channels available in Europe, e.g. over the satellite fleets Astra and Eutelsat, almost all of them "free to air" (unencrypted), including all the major free stations. DVB-T is (being) deployed at the moment in UK, Germany, Australia, Spain and other countries as a replacement for the classic analog TV over antenna. | There are several hundred or thousand DVB-S channels available in Europe, e.g. over the satellite fleets Astra and Eutelsat, almost all of them "free to air" (unencrypted), including all the major free stations. DVB-T is (being) deployed at the moment in UK, Germany, Australia, Spain and other countries as a replacement for the classic analog TV over antenna. | ||
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Revision as of 15:11, 23 March 2006
What is DVB?
DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) is the standard for digital TV.
Widely used in Europe. USA's Dish Network and DirecTV use proprietary, deliberately incompatible variants of it.
It's based on MPEG2 compression and packet formats. The physical part comes in the variants
- terrestrial (antenna, airwaves) (DVB-T)
- cable (DVB-C)
- satellite (DVB-S)
Some channels (esp. pay channels) are encrypted, there's a standardized decryption hardware slot called "Common Interface" (CI) for the decryption hardware called "Conditional Access Module" (CAM), which usually also needs a smartcard for legitimation/accounting.
Note: to compile in DVB support into MythTV use:
./configure --enable-dvb qmake mythtv.pro make
as root user:
make install
Availability
There are several hundred or thousand DVB-S channels available in Europe, e.g. over the satellite fleets Astra and Eutelsat, almost all of them "free to air" (unencrypted), including all the major free stations. DVB-T is (being) deployed at the moment in UK, Germany, Australia, Spain and other countries as a replacement for the classic analog TV over antenna.
See also
- Dvb Apps
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI - A popular DVB TV card.
External links
4 DVB guides currently exist elsewhere on the web:
- http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk - New MythTV 0.181 DVB on SUSE 9.3 setup guide
- http://www.digitalregime.com/mythdvb/setup - New MythTV 0.17 DVB setup guide
- http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html - Martin Smiths DVB-T Setup Guide
- http://www.helkit.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/Main/MythTVDVB-TAndConexantNotes - Richie Jarvis' Guide to setting up Conexant based WinTV cards for Myth (an addendum to Martin's Guide)
