[mythtv-users] S-Video capture details via PVR-500

[Mark Hutchinson]

Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On 2/11/08, *Mark Hutchinson* <mark at onnow.net <mailto:mark at onnow.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>     > On Feb 11, 2008 4:06 PM, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net
>     <mailto:mark at onnow.net>
>     > <mailto:mark at onnow.net <mailto:mark at onnow.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     From  the reading I have done, it looks as if the PVR-500
>     >     Hauppauge will
>     >     act as an S-Video device.
>     >     Just a couple of questions regarding that.
>     >     How is sound captured?  I want to capture from a DCT-6200
>     box, so two
>     >     RCA jacks.  Should that be directed into the mini-pin on the
>     back
>     >     of the
>     >     PVR-500 card?  Or into the sound in plug on your PCI sound card?
>     >
>     >
>     > Mini-pin?  My PVR-500 has two coax connectors, an svideo, and three
>     > rca connectors (one for video and two for l/r audio).  The rca audio
>     > connectors is what you should connect the sound from the
>     DCT-6200 to.
>     >
>     >     Also, what is this I have read about setting the channel on the
>     >     PVR-500
>     >     to 3?  How is that done when just being used as an S-Video
>     capture
>     >     device?
>     >     Anything else I should know before configuring?
>     >
>     >
>     > You mean in setup?  Or something else?  Any channel changing
>     will use
>     > the external command you setup.
>     >
>     >
>     >     Thanks all.  I may have a working solution after this.
>     >     Not as clear as firewire, but S-Video should look OK.  Any
>     comments on
>     >     quality of S-Video?
>     >
>     >
>     > This is the setup I use for all the SD digital content from my 6200,
>     > and it looks pretty good.
>     >
>     > -Jerry
>     >
>
>     Do you do anything different for HD recording?  I may try to make a
>     separate profile for recording HD channels from firewire ( channel
>     change and capture ) as that worked fine, SD capture from firewire was
>     where I ran into most problems.
>
>
> For all the HD that's in the clear, I use a QAM card to record 
> straight off the coax, without going through the STB.  For encrypted 
> HD, I use the Hauppauge component input recorder.  Or am I confusing 
> real life with fantasy again?  No, for encrypted HD I just record the 
> SD equivalent and rail about the idiocy of the cable companies.  Until 
> the Hauppauge card is available in a few months.
>
> Another option you have for HD is to use firewire, if your provider 
> passes HD through in a recordable form.
>
> -Jerry
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I have been emailing Hauppauge to see whent he HD-PVR will be released.  
And if there will be Linux suppport/drivers.  It is supposed to be Q1 of 
2008.  That really sounds like the Holy Grail of Linux.  If it works, I 
am throwing massive disk and CPU at it and will be thrilled.