Wifes DVBS channels gone dark - need help with alternative HD PVR?

[Elmo Putney]

I have 4 DVB tuners for UK terrestrial and 2 DVBS2 tuners to pull in French TV from a couple of satellites for my wife, but after many years they have now encrypted the French channels on the 5W and 13E sats - or not necessarily encrypted but they now show as the attached picture on king of sat - I believe they are now multi streams whatever they are. It's possible one of the TBS card might pull in the multi streams but I suspect getting it to work with NPVR might be a different story.

TBS6903 is a Professional level digital satellite TV Tuner card with PCI Express interface. TBS6903 supports not only normal DVB-S2/DVB-S QPSK, 8PSK which is supported by normal satellite receivers, but also CCM, ACM, VCM, 16APSK, 32APSK, Multiple Transport Stream, Multiple Generic Stream, Combined Single Generic &Single TS, which most satellite receiving devices can’t support. With use of dedicated TBS tools, those special streams can be captured. The two advanced DVB-S2/S tuners enable you to watch TV channel from one satellite transponder, while recording channels from different satellite transponders from another tuner at the same time.

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I'm looking into alternatives and will research this "multi stream" thing - but the most secure route is probably to buy a French sat box when I'm over there at christmas and then add a capture device to the PC.

I've looked at Collossus, HDPVR etc... but don't really know what I'm getting into.....

Ideally I want - to capture hdmi output of sat box for live TV and recordings on my NPVR server and watch on Kodi clients & have npvr change channels which I assume means blasting?

Do I need to worry about copy protection over HDMI?

low profile PCIe would be best but USB would work.

What are my options/pitfalls?

[Elmo Putney]

One option I hadn't thought of is a french CAM and Card, does NPVR support any tuners with CAM slots or seperate CAM solutions?

[Ludron]

I believe they are now multi streams whatever they are. It's possible one of the TBS card might pull in the multi streams but I suspect getting it to work with NPVR might be a different story.

What are my options/pitfalls?

Maybe they consider that feature after looking at this old list?