[mythtv-users] MythTV - DirectTV - Grabbing Streams

[Sam Byrne]

The PVR-250 does indeed have the capability of hardware MPEG-2
encoding.  You'll probably find the info at http://www.pcmx.net/dtvcon/
useful as this is one place you can find the cable necessary to
communicate with the DirecTV receiver.  There are several folks using
MythTV with DirecTV, so IMO, what you're attempting sounds perfectly
reasonable.

Sam
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:40, Jeff M. wrote:
> Hello,
>     Here's what I would like to do.  I'm going to build a test MythTV system
> for our company.  The purpose of this will be to save basketball games to CD
> or DVD for later review when the player is on the road or at home, etc.
>     There a pro basketball trainer that my boss is partners with that got
> DirecTV and Tivo to record the games of the pro players he trains.  He then
> goes through the games on Tivo and records the clips and highlights of the
> player to VHS tape.  We then encode the VHS tape using WME and then burn to
> DVD/VCD.  These aren't the highest quality and after a lot of DtoA-AtoD
> conversion, there is a little bit of a visual problem.
>     If we could get the stream digitized just as it's recorded (hack the
> Tivo, etc), life would be a lot "gooder".  Anyway, this is where MythTV came
> into play.
>     What my question is, how hard is it to configure MythTV to control the
> DirecTV receiver (one is dual receiver/tivo and another is just the HDTV
> receiver (but the channels we're going to be recording aren't HDTV) and I'm
> going to test using just the receiver system)?
>     And the test system I plan on using is a AMD Duron 1.3, 256MB, 40GB,
> GeForce2 GTS 32MB.  I believe it would be best to get a card that has
> hardware MPEG-2 encoding.  I've been looking up info and noticed conflicting
> reports for the PVR-250.  Does the PVR-250 have hardware MPEG-2 encoding or
> do I have to get a PVR-350?
>     Thank you for your time and attention.. -Jeff
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