[mythtvnz] USB DVB-S

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Nick
> There is also the Kaon 12V STB option, not really elegant and you'd have to treat it like a sky STB with composite video which might
> create different problems, but maybe there is a way to take a USB composite feed that's easier than a USB DVB-S feed?

Personally I wouldn't recommend to anyone to take the analogue signal
and encode it back to digital when the digital signal is unencrypted
and freely available.

> I guess you know about DiSEqC1.0/1.2 protocol and satellite dishes?
>

I don't know anything specific, if you are hinting at some known
problem, let us know :)

Back to DVB-S USB I guess this
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_USB_Devices should be the
ultimate resource, however it is full of dead links and outdated info.

Parsing the pvrusb driver source would give some info perhaps, but in
the absence of advertisers on trademe giving accurate info its hard to
tie it back to a nameless product.

For $75 I am almost tempted to buy one and see, and flick it back on
trademe afterwards.