Recording Satellite/TV to my computer

[bostonbruinfan]

Is there a way to record a TV show/movies from my satellite or regular tv cable to my computer and share that file/burn/store in my system.What type of process or connection is needed.

[aldus4]

The process is called "capturing". For this you will need a capture card. You can find details about this in the "capture" section of the "how to" Guide on this website.

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[bostonbruinfan]

which software is the best to use for this purpose? can I also do this with my video camera...I mean record my video tapes( family movies) to my system and then eventually burn to CD to play in my DVD player? what do ya think?

[Dman65]

Yes, all of these things are very possible and in fact what this web site is all about. take a look at the tutorials on the left about capturing.

[lafamar]

Normally when you buy a capture card you receive a correspondent software for this. Normally too, the software let you capture from cable TV, regular TV, VCR and others. I recomend you buy a MPEG or MPG NOT MJPEG or AVI CAPTURE CARD, so you don't need to convert from .MJPEG or .AVI file to MPEG file because this process spends much, much time. All most cards capture in .MJPEG or .AVI file.
Dont' forget that all DVDPlayer Units only read MPEG/MPG files.
Note: MPEG and MPG is the same thing.
I hope help you!

[hitechjunkie]

off topic but related:

anyone try using a S/W Nagravision decoder (DISH Network) with their bt8x8 capture card?

[SatStorm]

It is possible to grabb satellite channels in real time.
You have to options:

1. A nokia dbox - 9500 - 9200 - 9600 - 9610 digital satellite receiver, with DVB2000 firmware (www.dominance.net/overflow) No encoding need for (x)vcds, just remuxing. But re - encode to XVCD (like SeVCD) remains amazing good! (Far better vhs)

2. A pc card like: TechnoTrend DVB Sat, TechnoTrend DVB Cable, Hauppauge WinTV DVBs, Siemens PCI-DVB Sat, Siemens PCI-DVB Cable, TechniSat SkyStar 1 (no SkyStar 2 !), Galaxis plug.in S
with windvblive! software (http://www.odsoft.org/)
That software is something like dvb2000 for nokia receivers