[mythtv-users] DirecTV RCA reciever + PVR 250

Augustin Chan auchan at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 2 17:13:35 EST 2003


Hi all,

Just curious how everyone with a similar setup has gotten things to work
seamlessly?

I've just ordered the RCA Cable pack from SnapStream (the receiver I got was
the RCA DRD435RH) and I'm hoping it will be able to receive signal properly
from MythTV.

Have some questions on the details -

I got this RCA.pl from http://tarek.2y.net/myth/.  From the MythTV
documentation, I think this is what I specify as my 'changechannel' program. 
Is this what I put in for the external channel changer in the Input Connections
menu?  Do I just cp this file to /usr/local/bin/changechannel and it magically
starts to work?

I've also noticed that while watching LiveTV that the channel changing from the
DirectTV Guide using my DirecTV remote is sluggish.  I know this is because the
live feed is being recorded so that I can pause it, etc, and that it's because
my disk access is the culprit.  Does anyone have any easy tweaks to speed
things up?  Maybe specify a particular bitrate/resolution so that not as much
is written to disk?

Thanks in advance!


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Augustin Chan
auchan at yahoo.com

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