<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shiloh Madsen</b> <<a href="mailto:shiloh.madsen@gmail.com">shiloh.madsen@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;">
Ok, but I think I may be misreading this...correct me if I am wrong.<br>Does this mean that I would have to set the satellite box to the<br>station I want to record, then just have myth capture directly from<br>the stream it is sending? That would essentially make mythTV a
<br>glorified VCR...and a dumb one at that. My desire is to be able to use<br>the interface to say record this show on this channel, this show on<br>that channel, etc, etc and let the mythtv box change to whatever<br>channel it needs to be recording from on a given time. Does the setup
<br>you suggest allow for this? The description seems to indicate no...<br><br>On 4/25/07, Cole Brodine <<a href="mailto:cbrodine@gmail.com">cbrodine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 4/25/07, Brian Walter <
<a href="mailto:blwalter@gmail.com">blwalter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > 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>> > _______________________________________________
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</a><br>> ><br>><br>> Shiloh,<br>><br>> I had a big e-mail all written up, but Brain beat me to the punch. I've got<br>> almost the exact same system as him for DirecTV, except I have a PVR-250. A
<br>> nice thing about the DirecTV boxes, is that some of them take serial inputs,<br>> so you don't need an IR blaster. Satellite and Myth are definitely doable,<br>> especially if you don't care about HD content.
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</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, you are kinda reading it wrong. You could do it that way, but as you say that would make it pretty dumb. Using an IR Blaster or a serial cable hooked up to the myth box and the Sat box, myth will change the channel on the box to whatever you are wanting to record/watch, then record the stream.
<br><br>HTH.<br><br>Chris<br><br>