[mythtv] Netowrked ATSC Tuner

[jafa]

Steve Adeff wrote:
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> On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:52, jafa wrote:
>   
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am involved in a networked ATSC tuner (dual tuners, 100baseTX network).
>>
>> The video stream is UDP based and it has a TCP control channel. Two
>> machines can independently control the two tuners if desired.
>>
>> I have just recently started playing with MythTV and I would like to add
>> MythTV support.
>>
>> One approach could be to use a user-space app to receive the TS and
>> create a loopback driver so it looks like a normal video capture device.
>>
>> Another approach would be to add support directly to MythTV. This would
>> avoid looping through the kernel and would be easier for end-users.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> I am quite happy writing the code for it, or would be able to arrange
>> samples if anyone was interested in helping out.
>>
>> Nick
>>     
>
> why not just install a remote MythTV backend on the machine with the ATSC 
> tuners?
>
>   
Hi Steve,

The tuner is an embedded network device (like a home router) and it is 
not running a *nix style OS.

It might be possible to add functions to the device to help MythTV, but 
it can't run the MythTV backend.

Nick