[mythtv-users] Mechanical cable splitter

[Brian Wood]

Josh White wrote:
> haha...well done.  You didn't answer my question.  Is it possible to
> make such a thing work in the example of connecting a PS2 to a computer
> monitor via a PVR-250 (like in the example from the post above mine in
> the thread)?  And while I didn't say it explicitly, I was thinking that
> the DVR portion could be recorded/written as usual, but simultaneously,
> same feed could be piped directly to the display (which could be a TV, a
> monitor, projector, etc).  Certainly, it would require significantly
> more CPU cycles on the part of the backend, but would it be possible? Of
> course, you could also add a frame grabber card that would only be used
> for live tv, saving your PVR-250 for recording duties.  There would be
> no need to save the frames in such a case if you're recording for the
> sake of the DVR, so those frames would only go to memory and that would
> be it.  The benefit of such an arrangement would be that you would still
> be in the same environment (the Mythtv environment that is) and if you
> wanted to rewind, the system would simply switch to the recording.  One
> of my wife's gripes is that the lag in changing channels to too great
> for her (and she insists on watching liveTV still, but that's another
> story)  One of my frontends doesn't involve an actual TV at all, so
> that's where this could have relevance. 
> 
> BTW, when I had a Time Warner DVR, I did have "instant response" AND a
> DVR.  Just because a typical MythTV setup doesn't offer that capability,
> doesn't necessarily mean it is impossible or undesirable.  Is anyone
> apposed to having both?  Like if you could have both, but simply turn it
> off with a check box, would you turn it off? 

I suspect that what you describe could be done, but I think you would
have to pretty much work it out yourself, due mainly to lack of interest
on the part of the Myth developers and probably most of the users.

beww