How to watch satellite tv channels on your computer using Emulators via DVB Cards

You only need a DVB player, DVB cards, satellite dish, LNBf, and other necessities to run FTA channels on your PC. On the other hand, this is the advanced tutorial level, as we will focus on running premium FTA channels on your PC via an emulator. As I said, I will focus on running satellite TV channels via DVB cards with special reference to an emulator. I mean powervu emulator.

What is an Emulator

According to Wikipedia, “In computing, an emulator is hardware or software(just that we are focusing on the software side of it within this context) that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically allows the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program in an electronic device to emulate (or imitate) another program or device.

Since at least the 1990s until today (2010s), some video game enthusiasts have used emulators to play 1980s arcade games using the original 1980s programming code, which is interpreted by a current-era system. You can easily deduce from the above that “DVB cards emulate a satellite decoder when used with a PC while powervu emulator emulates Oscam software on the decoders.”

What is Powervu emu (emulator?)

First, PowerVU Emu is a standalone emulator for DVB-Viewer-Pro, DVB-Dream, SmartDVB, TSReader, and ProgDVB. Furthermore, a powervu emulator is computer software that is programmed in such a way as to emulate the original software on any powervu official decoder. By so doing, it can open specified powervu channels same as the official decoders. Powervuemulator, from its inception, only works on PC. Meanwhile, Oscam emulator works on our various auto-roll decoders.

If your interest is to mtn worldwide, or Sony package and you do not have access to the official decoder, you can use an emulator to open the channels. This, however, has legal implications so your discretions are advised. You must be guided according. That being said, the next topic will treat the requirements you need before you can watch the powervu channel on your computer via the powervu emulator.

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Requirements for running satellite TV channels via DVB cards

A Case Study of PowerVu on the Requirements for Running Satellite TV Channels via DVB Cards.

• You need a pc. This can be a desktop or a laptop computer. The pc configuration must not be less than the following: 1GB of ram, 40GB hard disk, Dual-core processor, and A reasonable video ram(for HD channels). You need a minimum of 256mb for HD videos.
• In addition to the above, you must buy a DVB Card per your pocket/budget. Read my article here on how you can choose one. You invariably also require a satellite dish, LNBf, and a coaxial cable. Noteworthy, your dish must be big enough to receive the signal from the satellite package you intend to track. For Sony package, you need 2.4 meters from West Africa, and for MTN worldwide, you need a minimum of 1.8meters
• Also, having other essential software like LAVFilters and Crazyscan for scanning channels would be best.
• Now to the big moment. You need to download a working powervu emulator. You can get the most recent and currently working one from satuniverse. The current one is It is version 2.8. Perform a simple Google search, and you will be glad you did. The search tag “PowerVuEmu.2.8” will help you out.
• Finally, you need

Configurations Needed For Running Satellite TV Channels via DVB Cards

Powervu emu 2.8 supports a lot of DVB players. Below are comprehensive instructions on how you can get started with the supported media players

How to use it with (DVB-Viewer-Pro):

•  Copy its .dll, .ini & Softcam.Key files to the `Plugins` folder of the DVB-Viewer-Pro.
• Its key formats are:
  P Ident KeyIndex Key; Comments
  or
  P IdentVideoPidAudioPid KeyIndex Key ; Comments
• Disable other plugins that can decrypt the PowerVU. Only one plugin can decrypt the same TS(Audio/Video) correctly at once. If you are using vPlug, you must delete its PowerVU.mdl to disable its PowerVU support.
• Also, don’t forget to use a better direct show filter, such as LAVFilters, to avoid glitches.
  Very important: LAVFilters

For the Usage of (DVBDream):
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• Copy its .dll, .ini & Softcam.Key files to the `Modules` folder of the DVBDream. Then change the extension of the .dll file to .mod.

Usage (TSReader):
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• Copy its .dll, .ini & Softcam.Key files to the `MDPlugins` folder of the TSReader (http://coolstf.com/tsreader).

Usage (SmartDVB):
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• Copy its .dll, .ini & Softcam.Key files to the `Plugins` folder of the SmartDVB Their URL: (http://www.smartdvb.net/).

Last but not least How To Use (ProgDVB X86):
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• Copy its .dll, .ini & Softcam.Key files to the `Plugins` folder of the ProgDVB Website: (http://progdvb.com/).