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jaipal2004 · 09-05-10, 08:37 PM

Hi,

I have looked at the prices of Dreamboxes, especially the 800HD and they seem to be out of my budget range.

I do however have a few PC's floating around but wanted to know if I could install Linux on these and use cccam? It appears the Dreamboxes are Linux PC's under the hood and it'd mean I can use it as a mediaPC + satellite box?

Furthermore, if the above is possible - what card would I need to input the satellite feed into the PC? I can't seem to find any help on this anywhere.

Thanks

River-Rat · 09-05-10, 08:42 PM

this is the wrong area to post and card sharing is not allowed on the site and first post in 5 months?

jaipal2004 · 09-05-10, 08:43 PM

sorry - can I move the thread to the correct section? I will edit the original post.

thanks

TheCoder · 09-05-10, 09:35 PM

Its possible to use PC's as media PC's using either windows or linux. You can get cheap cards (about £50 each) for the various systems DVB-S (Sat), DVB-C (Cable) and DVB-T (Terrestrial). These cards are basically just tuners/demodulators that lets the PC see the basic Mpeg data streams from the channels. A fairly standard Mpeg player can then be used to actually view this data as pictures/audio.

There's plenty of different applications around that allow various "plugins" to also work with these cards including both cs servers and clients.

Its actually even possible to recompile the dreambox code to run on a PC (although you need to make substantial changes to get around some of the closed source libraries - whoever said that dreamboxes were open source ? )

jaipal2004 · 09-05-10, 09:39 PM

Great stuff

Is any DVB-S card compatible with cccam on linux or would I need to be careful about which one I purchase?

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCoder

Its possible to use PC's as media PC's using either windows or linux. You can get cheap cards (about £50 each) for the various systems DVB-S (Sat), DVB-C (Cable) and DVB-T (Terrestrial). These cards are basically just tuners/demodulators that lets the PC see the basic Mpeg data streams from the channels. A fairly standard Mpeg player can then be used to actually view this data as pictures/audio.

There's plenty of different applications around that allow various "plugins" to also work with these cards including both cs servers and clients.

Its actually even possible to recompile the dreambox code to run on a PC (although you need to make substantial changes to get around some of the closed source libraries - whoever said that dreamboxes were open source ? )

seseliy · 30-10-10, 04:42 AM

Yeah, it's great.
Thanks for sharing this here.

09-05-10, 08:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
jaipal2004 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Linux PC instead of buying Dreambox Hi, I have looked at the prices of Dreamboxes, especially the 800HD and they seem to be out of my budget range. I do however have a few PC's floating around but wanted to know if I could install Linux on these and use cccam? It appears the Dreamboxes are Linux PC's under the hood and it'd mean I can use it as a mediaPC + satellite box? Furthermore, if the above is possible - what card would I need to input the satellite feed into the PC? I can't seem to find any help on this anywhere. Thanks Last edited by jaipal2004; 09-05-10 at 08:44 PM. Reason: removing reference to cardsharing

09-05-10, 08:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
River-Rat Ex cable guy Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,780 Thanks: 62 Thanked 385 Times in 281 Posts	Re: Linux PC instead of buying Dreambox this is the wrong area to post and card sharing is not allowed on the site and first post in 5 months? __________________ 1 meter dish with octo lnb, xtrend et9200HD e2 box, 50inch Panasonic vt30. ps3, lg cinema sound

09-05-10, 08:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
jaipal2004 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Linux PC instead of buying Dreambox sorry - can I move the thread to the correct section? I will edit the original post. thanks

09-05-10, 09:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
TheCoder Underground Crew Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Undrground Posts: 2,149 Thanks: 15 Thanked 1,691 Times in 933 Posts	Re: Linux PC instead of buying Dreambox Its possible to use PC's as media PC's using either windows or linux. You can get cheap cards (about £50 each) for the various systems DVB-S (Sat), DVB-C (Cable) and DVB-T (Terrestrial). These cards are basically just tuners/demodulators that lets the PC see the basic Mpeg data streams from the channels. A fairly standard Mpeg player can then be used to actually view this data as pictures/audio. There's plenty of different applications around that allow various "plugins" to also work with these cards including both cs servers and clients. Its actually even possible to recompile the dreambox code to run on a PC (although you need to make substantial changes to get around some of the closed source libraries - whoever said that dreamboxes were open source ? ) Last edited by TheCoder; 09-05-10 at 09:38 PM.

30-10-10, 04:42 AM	#6 (permalink)
seseliy Technology Forums Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Linux PC instead of buying Dreambox Yeah, it's great. Thanks for sharing this here.

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