<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Walter</b> <<a href="mailto:blwalter@gmail.com">blwalter@gmail.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;">
Shiloh Madsen wrote:<br>> Ok, I dug around in the last few months of posts for a while and I am<br>> having a hard time figuring out if I am sunk before I get started or<br>> not. Basically, I am wanting to set up a PC as a MythTV box, however I
<br>> am getting TV via satellite. I gather that piping HD content into the<br>> box is pretty near impossible (though I am not sure I understand why<br>> exactly that is), however, what about your standard run of the mill
<br>> TV? I am not going to be watching anything on an HD display for a few<br>> years yet anyway (Poor college student heh) so that is no big deal.<br>> The problem is, someone told me that there are no tv capture/tuner
<br>> cards that will work with a satellite box. Is this true or not? If it<br>> is not true, can someone recommend to me some good cards that work<br>> well with MythTV? Thanks in advance.<br>><br>> Shiloh
<br>><br>><br>Shiloh,<br><br>I'm capturing Directv via the svideo and L/R out of a directv set top<br>box. So, yes, it *is* possible to capture from a satellite service, you<br>just can't capture *directly* from it, like you do an antenna or cable
<br>source. You need to have a set top box to receive and decode the<br>signal, then, transmit *that* to a capture card.<br><br>To do HD from satellite is *expensive*, and requires a modified set top<br>box, and an intermediate box (basically an XP or Linux box, depending on
<br>the solution), which *then* transmitts the signal via Firewire to Myth.<br><br>In my setup, I'm using a PVR-150 from Hauppauge to capture the<br>svideo/audio out from a DirecTV satellite receiver, 1 PVR-500 to handle
<br>cable stations, and 2 HD Homeruns for HD content (unencrypted, broadcast<br>channels over cable).<br><br>Hope that helps somewhat.<br><br>Brian<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>Shiloh,<br><br>I had a big e-mail all written up, but Brain beat me to the punch. I've got almost the exact same system as him for DirecTV, except I have a PVR-250. A nice thing about the DirecTV boxes, is that some of them take serial inputs, so you don't need an IR blaster. Satellite and Myth are definitely doable, especially if you don't care about HD content.
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