Digital Satelite TV tuner cards for PC's

[spt2001]

Does anyone out there use their PC via a Digital Satelite TV tuner card? Thats the way I'm thinking of going, distributing it through a wireless network throughout my home.

Can anyone advise me re pros and cons?

Stephen

Perth
Western Australia

[theslydog]

Ive had a TT 2.1 (with onboard Mpeg2 decoder so it dont suck the life outa ur CPU) since they first came out and tried streaming video but it kills your network. That was with 100Cat5e. 10baseT was a waste of time so wireless would die. You seriously cant stream full mpeg2 if you want to use your network for anything else. Maybe 1000BaseT would be OK.

Better to run a dedicated AV sender off ur Rx it would be easier.

tsd

[spt2001]

17" hyundia digital lcd monitor
P4 2.6 800 fsb
1gig dual channel ddr 400 memory 160gig Sata Samsung hard drive
Pioneer dvd 106 + & - burner
Memory stick 5 in 1 reader
White shuttle case


This is a spec sheet on the tuner card

VisionPlus VP-DTV Sat

Key Features
DVB Protocol Support
Common Interface ( DVB EN50221)
PCMCIA Interface
Support DVB Data Broadcasting ( ETSI301 192 ).
Support MPE ( multiprotocol encapsulation)
Digital Satellite TV and Radio Program Receiving.
Real time Digital Video Recording (DVR) and Scheduling Recording.
Time-Shifting / Preset Time-Shifting.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
Still Frame Capture
Multi-Channel Preview
Channel ,Transponder, Satellite Auto Scan.
Viewing and Recording Different Channelssimultaneously.
MPEG-II Software Decoding
Software Upgradable
Video Quality Adjustment
Favorite List
Teletext
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
500MHz CPU or above
128M RAM or above
VGA Card with at least 8MB Memory
Sound Card
Microsoft Direct X 8.1 or above
Digital Satellite Dish & LNB

Tuner
Input Terminal: F-type 75 Ohm
Receiving frequency:950~2150 MHz tuning range
Input level: -65~25dBm
LNB Control
Input level: -65~25dBm
LNB supply voltage: 13/18V
Support USALS
Support Data Burst & Tone Burst.
Antenna and LNB control:22KHz tone
Max LNB supply current: 400mA
PCI Interface
PCI bus: PCI 2.2 compliant
Host bus burst rate: 132 MB/S
Host bus width: 32 bit
Demultiplexing
Max No. Section filtering: 32PIDs
Host bus burst rate: 132 MB/S
Descrambler: DVB descrambler
Stream capture: PES & TS
A/V Format
Video format: MPEG-II Main Profile & Main Level
Audio format: MPEG-II Audio layer I &II Will it do the job? At least to get it to the PC Screen. AV senders would be the go from the PC to the TV's then!!?!?!?!!?

spt2001

[SATSPY]

@Spt2001

Hi,
its not possible to transport the MPEG2 stream signal via WLAN. If you want to provide your received signal in your house, you first have to record the program on the harddisk. With a little timeshift then you can get the recorded programm on a second computer, its works like the timeshift funktion in many receivers. The datasize depends on the received transponder. But normaly its between 1 und 2 Megabyte per second, also about 8 to 16 MBit. For a good WLAN-net, it mustn't be a problem
A powerfull p4 PC is recommended, check out your graphic system, a good graphic-card supports an effcient videoview.

best regards from Germany, Michael

[colint]

Streaming Video over your lan is possible. Have a look here http://www.videolan.org/. (FREE)

I haven't got the windows side of thigs to work as yet. The software seems more suited to a Unix / Linux Box.

Regards to all

Col
(aka VK2TRC)

[SATSPY]

@ colint:

Hi,

I didn't saw this site before, its very useful! I'll try it. Thanks for the information

cu Michael

[jonc]

Also have a look at myhtpc.net for the myhtpc - has udp client / server in it and works well for many things including SatTV ..

I use it here, great for screen dumps as well .. see one attached from LMI1 KU analogue ..

[blackcrusader]

Hpe you got unlimited downloads for your broadband otherwise you'll be paying lotsa $$$$ to download all those monster sat programs