Hello. Is there a way to do this?

How can the sat receiver be connected to the computer and the stream captured without the loss of decompressing then capturing analog?

If you want to capture the original mpeg-2 ts from satellite you need a dvb-s (or some other standard;depends on the area) card for your pc or if you have a receiver with internal hd it might be possible to extract the recorded files from the hd.

Thank you for your response.

Can you direct me to an faq somewhere or any resource where I can learn more?

Is there anyone out there that is actually doing this?

Screensavers has had a couple of segments on saving off TiVo files.. you may find a pointer if you search their web site.

I don't know of any dbs (ie directTV or Dish Network) receivers that have any output connector for compressed signal so you are stuck with either real hardware hacking or one of the TiVo combo units and removing the hard drive to get at the files.

"Old school" systems (think 10 foot dish) may be a little more open, but I don't think they are compressed to begin with.

The TiVo units store the data very compressed don't they?

What I want to do is capture my sat stream in its original Mpeg 2 and ac3 form and timeshift it to dvd.

Thanks again to latexxx. Now that I know a bit what to l;ook for, google is starting to give me hits.

I need to find out how all this fits together with their stupid decryption cards we all have here in Canada.

The Tivo/directTV combo units store the mpeg as recieved. They do not decode/encode like you would get with an external TiVo hooked to a sat receiver. I don't know what they do if you record an HDTV channel.

The cheapest way is to buy a dvb-s card (if you are receiving dvb-s and not some weirdo standard which is used in some North-American satellites). I've heard that Skystar2 (also http://www.technisat.com/en/produkte/produ...c1be934d6c12921 ) is a good choice. DVBViewer is free software only for Skystar2

Some information: http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=64

would you like to use it in windows or linux?

for linux exists a very good program to capture video and use ist as tv/tv-server.
take a look on: www.linuxtv.org if your card is supported, and look at www.cadsoft.de/vdr/, maybe you're interrested in the the look of any patches, try www.akool.de/download.html - many informations for this programm are available under www.vdr-portal.de, but this is a german site.

windows software for such thing's is also available, but not soo fine like vdr.
multidec, progdvb, watchtvpro, dvbviewer - that are some names of such software.
recording is usually without compression.

the vdr has a plugin to automatically convert the recordings into dvd-format an to burn it! - that's really useful.

i hope i could help you, mfg z421

Here is a list of DVB cards and software. For satelite, as mentioned you want the DVB-S variety.