[mythtv-users] Firewire DCT recording -> Myth?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 12:36:08 UTC 2007


On 6/28/07, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
> I have a DCT6416. I use an HDHomerun for unencrypted QAM, but
> occasionally want to get a recording off an encrypted channel into myth.
> 5C is not an issue.
>
> I have used myth treating the DCT6416 as a firewire tuner, and that
> works with some reliability caveats. However, its not what I really
> want. I don't want to tie up the whole DCT during the recording.
>
> What I really want to do is let the DCT do its own recording, and then
> play it back for myth over firewire at a time the DCT is not in use.
>
> It would be nice to be able to automate that, but as far as I know the
> only commands that can be issued over firewire are channel changes. I
> guess something could be done over IR, but it would be a real unreliable
> mess navigating through the menus over a balky IR.
>
> Right now I would settle for doing it manually. I have done this with
> "custom record", but this has a 5 minute granularity on start time, and
>   wants to do an extraneous channel change. If I preposition the DCT to
> be ready to play the recording, the channel change loses it. Then there
> is the matter of trying to associate the metadata that myth knows (or
> maybe knew) with the recording.
>
> Has anyone worked out a better way?

yea, get a non-DVR box just for you Myth backend.

-- 
Steve
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