[mythtv-users] Capture card with component video in?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Jul 2 18:29:49 UTC 2006


On Jul 2, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

>> The only one I've ever seen mentioned was somewhere around 3,000 USD,
>> and it seems like the discussion was around whether it would actually
>> be able to capture true HDTV.
>>
>> So, I think that if you actually are planning on capturing from an
>> HDTV you check the following options:
>> * Firewire from your cable box to your mythbox (but only of the
>> unencyrpted channels)
>> * Down converting the video via an S-Video out on your cable box and
>> into something like a PVR-150.
>> * For the few channels that you cannot get unencrypted, give up the
>> ability to "Myth" them and just pipe them directly into your TV.
>>
>> Until the day when hardware manufacturers are able to somehow get
>> component captured (maybe with PCI-e), this is about the extent of
>> what you'll find.
>>
>
> I would like to interface Dish Network (DBS satellite) to MythTV.
> I'm running the output to a DLP projector so I want the best possible
> picture quality (at the source.)

The only way I'm aware of to do that is the way I'm doing it, take  
the S-Video output of the Dish receiver and go into the baseband  
input of a PVR card. I do not know of any way to do HD short of a  
commercial HD encoder, WAY too many $$$ for any of us here I'm sure.


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