<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><span class="q"><div>On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:11 AM, notimeinco wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><p><font face="Arial" size="2">I apologize for not responding in the thread - I was in digest mode (now out) so I'll just start a new one.
</font> </p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">My limited understanding of 169time is that the AVX1 is a bootable OS provided on CD. You can purchase their box (PC) or provide your own. You connect your firewire-enhanced STB to it and the AVX1 emulates a D-VHS recorder. From there, you can tap the HD content with MythTV, etc. R5000HD is rumored to be more robust and seems to also use a D-VHS emulation (under WinXP). I also found some discussion of D-VHS/1394 emulation under Linux but it was not recent. The idea was to eliminate the WinXP box and go directly to MythTV.
</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">My question about cabling out of a DirecTV STB was specific to HD. If I assume that HD is only available on an HDMI port, what is the obstacle to capture of that content? Is it encryption? If HD is available on component and/or s-video, is there degradation and how much?
</font></p></blockquote></span>The obstacle is that there are no consumer-grade cards that can capture from an HDMI port. You're looking at a pro card for many thousands of dollars if you want to do it. </div></div></blockquote>
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