[mythtv-users] tv tuner card for mythtv indian users

kalim kalimputhawala at gmail.com
Sat May 12 11:51:29 UTC 2018


Thanks Stephen , I would try that.

On Sat, 12 May 2018 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2018 12:08:46 +0530, you wrote:
>
> >hi I’ve been using mythtv lately ,
> >but I could not figure out which tv tuner card would work for indian tv
> >channels, (tata sky) is our dth operator .
> >I own a laptop as well as desktop ,
> >so please suggest which tv tuner card should i buy from Amazon.in
> >
> >I also would like to suggest beets ( a github project for music metadata
> >which uses a wide variety of sites to fetch metadata for music including
> >lyrics too,currently we just have
> >musicbrainz)
> >
> >regards
> >kalim P
>
> The broadcasts are coming from satellites, so you would want DVB-S2
> tuners for that.  But since Tata Sky is a pay TV service, most
> channels will be encrypted and you will not be able to record them
> using MythTV directly.  If their decoder boxes have outputs you can
> use, then you may be able to record by getting MythTV to use an IR
> blaster to tell the decoder to change channels, and record from its
> HDMI or component video output.  That is difficult to do, but there
> are some people with MythTV setups like that.
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Regards,

Kalim M Puthawala
www.kalimPuthawala.in
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