[mythtv-users] HD Homerun Prime with MythTV

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Jul 21 02:44:40 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/2010 18:01, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I feel lucky that I even got the firewire channel changing
>> working on my box, and I have no desire at all to try to put up enough of a
>> fight to try to get a box with working firewire capture.
>
> If you have firewire changing working, and cannot get capture working, then
> it is very likely you simply have no 'copy-freely' content.

I've been struggling with it for two years.

It's not the case that the channels are marked as no-copy.  I can get
to the diagnostic screen for the STB and it shows that 5C is disabled
for the channels I'm trying to record, it's just very hit or miss as
far as what I actually get.  Some channels seem to record perfectly
all the time.  Others record perfectly sometimes, and other times
record only partially.  I might get 17 minutes on a 30 minute
recording, or 3 minutes, or 12 minutes or who knows what.  I've come
not to depend on anything recording over firewire and would switch to
a HDHR prime in a heartbeat.  I don't know what they cost, but they
have to be *way* cheaper than 3x HD STB rental plus 3x HDPVR.

Anyone know if you can use them with Fios?

Eric


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