Lossless Compression

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Jason,

This is really a question for you...

How are you achieving lossless compression with SS?

I was thinking about this last night and the only way I can see of
doing
this is to take a feed into a SAT card in the PC direct from the LNB to
catch the digital stream before it is decoded thus achieving a lossless
compressed file. The problem with that is that there is no CAM
available
for Sky Digital to enable this to be done with a SAT card or TV.

AFAIK the only way to do this, or more accurately, the only system that
can do this, is Sky+ as it actually records the stream directly and
plays back as it would be presented straight off the air.

If you are running it through the STB and then transferring that signal
to your SS machine then that is not lossless, you are in fact, doing
what any PVR or VHS machine would do.

K.



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