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What's On, Transponder and channel support
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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1106473" data-attributes="member: 330868"><p>Well I use the satellite card mainly for watching TV, as it sits in a media PC and I access the channels over the home network. The cabling from my fixed dishes only goes to a cupboard where the PC is. There’s no satellite connection where the TVs are.</p><p></p><p>I would say the key advantage though is that you have more tools available on the PC to be able to analyse streams and see what’s inside them. Especially for me that’s been stuff like the encapsulated Spanish stuff on 30°W. Of course that now works on these other boxes, but all the investigation to get there was only really possible with PC Cards to analyse the hidden data PIDs on each transponder.</p><p></p><p>Theoretically, with Linux boxes like the Octagons and Edisions you should be able to do similar by using tools on the command line interface (Telnet) to be able to dump full transponder data out to a file, which would be useful for me with no other 16APSK-capable stuff. But I haven’t managed to find a way to do that yet. On the Enigma2 side, there’s apparently tuner driver issues that stop it from working (the Enigma2 drivers will only provide a specific channel/channels to the front end via their PIDs, rather than a transponder dump with all PIDs). I’ve not tried the LinuxOS side yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1106473, member: 330868"] Well I use the satellite card mainly for watching TV, as it sits in a media PC and I access the channels over the home network. The cabling from my fixed dishes only goes to a cupboard where the PC is. There’s no satellite connection where the TVs are. I would say the key advantage though is that you have more tools available on the PC to be able to analyse streams and see what’s inside them. Especially for me that’s been stuff like the encapsulated Spanish stuff on 30°W. Of course that now works on these other boxes, but all the investigation to get there was only really possible with PC Cards to analyse the hidden data PIDs on each transponder. Theoretically, with Linux boxes like the Octagons and Edisions you should be able to do similar by using tools on the command line interface (Telnet) to be able to dump full transponder data out to a file, which would be useful for me with no other 16APSK-capable stuff. But I haven’t managed to find a way to do that yet. On the Enigma2 side, there’s apparently tuner driver issues that stop it from working (the Enigma2 drivers will only provide a specific channel/channels to the front end via their PIDs, rather than a transponder dump with all PIDs). I’ve not tried the LinuxOS side yet. [/QUOTE]
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