[mythtv-users] Alternatives to cable firewire

[Brian Wood]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 18:17:09 Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Oz<ozdror at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > My cable company finally blocked all the good channel for firewire
> >
> > for example when I change channel from PBS to NGC (all in HD)
> > I get this error
> >
> >
> > LFireDev(001BDDFFFE088551), Warning: No Input in 750 msec...
> >
> > Any Ideas for alternative HD DVR with mythtv.
>
> Hauppauge HD-PVR and the due-very-soon MythTV .22
>
> > What about Directtv over firewire
>
> Someone will doubtless say "oh yeah, I heard some DirecTV/Dish/etc.
> boxes have firewire outputs."  They always do.  Unfortunately in my
> experience with myth, I have NEVER heard of an actual (currently
> available and compatible with current codecs) box for either provider
> with firewire, nor of anyone capturing with Myth with them.  In my
> experience, it's 100% hearsay.

There are apparently "jeeped" satellite receivers available that will output 
the data stream via firewire, but they violate the TOS with the satellite 
provider.

This is "hearsay", but I heard it from one of the DISH engineers, who was 
complaining that even he was not allowed to obtain one of these receivers for 
experimental use.

I'd be careful about ordering one of these receivers, you would have no 
recourse if the seller sent you nothing, and if the seller got busted they 
might well turn over the customer ist to the authorities.

So it's probably more correct to simply say that no sice devices are 
available.

The only way to record HD from a satellite receiver today is the Hauppauge 
HD-PVR-1212, the support for which is still classed as experimental, though 
some folks seem to be having good results.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org