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<DIV>Is it possible to do a HDMI to DVI conversion from the H20 box and capture the DVI input on the MythTV system?</DIV>
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<DIV>I know this is a ton of data, but has anyone seen a DVI capture and hardware MPEG2 capture card?</DIV>
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<DIV>I have seen the simple HDMI to DVI coverter plugs but I have not seen Linux based DVI capture cards....</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Brian Wood <beww@beww.org><BR>To: Kyle Cummings <jkcummi@yahoo.com>; Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><BR>Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:06:13 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Building a MythTV system to interface to the DirecTV H20 Receiver<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>On Jun 17, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Kyle Cummings wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV>I am building a "from scratch" system to record content from a DirecTV H20 receiver.</DIV>
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<DIV>Can anyone give me a breakdown on what card (or cards) I should be using to connect the H20 to the MythTV box?</DIV>
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<DIV>The back of the H20 has USB, S-Video Out, Component Out, Video Out, Audio Out, Digital Audio Out, HDMI Out, Phone Jack, and RF Remote Antenna.</DIV>
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<DIV>I guess my first question is can I record HDTV content with this equipment?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Essentially no. You would need an encoder capable of HD, and AFAIK there are no consumer level devices available to do that.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lucent does make such a unit, but I believe the starting price is around $30,000.</DIV>
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<DIV>If I'm wrong and such a device has come onto the market at an affordable price I'd love to know :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>I thought that some DirecTV receivers had a Firewire output that could give you access to the decrypted mpeg stream, but I'm not sure about that, and I've never heard of such being available over a USB connection.</DIV>
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<DIV>You can record SD, the best method would be to connect the S-Video output to the similar input of a PVR card.</DIV>
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