[mythtv-users] Windows Media Center w/ Cable Card used asMythTV Tuner

[Dean Collins]

Can you just use a set top box and a hdmi stripper like the fury2?

 

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Alan Marchiori
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:07 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Windows Media Center w/ Cable Card used
asMythTV Tuner

> But if the files it generates are encrypted, how are you going to play
them
> in Myth? It might be a good idea to find someone using a Windows MC
system
> and ask them about it. Perhaps it doesn't store the files encrypted,
though
> from what I have read online about them, that's unlikely. To use it as
a

I tried the initial version of windows MCE a number of yeas ago and
all recordings were somehow tagged and could only be played back on
the PC that recorded them.  I'm not sure if this was via encryption or
something else (it uses its own proprietary codec).

But... there were online tools available that could convert the format
it records in into an mpg(non-drm'ed).  It was clumsy but it is
possible.  You would then need to link in the windows MCE scheduler to
the myth scheduler so it knows what to record.  Some sort of script
that queries the db could work, but there will be quite a bit of
hacking involved.

I think the HDPVR +STB option will be cheaper when you include your
time to make this work... because that already works with myth.
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