RECASTING DVB VIDEO SYSTEM TO RECAST DIGITAL BROADCASTS

摘要

A central controller remotely controls and configures receiver sets to receive programs in a broadcast signal and recast selected program sets to selected media driver sets over a computer network. Each receiver has an input module that receives programs from the broadcast signal, a control module that receives a control stream from the central controller, and a recasting module that reformats and transmits programs over the computer network. The receivers use the control stream to configure the program sets and the media device sets. The recasting module is uncoupled from the control module so that the receiver's recasting of program content can be different for different receiver sets, thereby allowing any combination of programs to be recast by any receiver set to any media device set. The receiver also has a storage module and interrupts the live recasting of the broadcast signal to spool out a locally stored file.