<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2007 9:29 AM, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Josh wrote:<br><br>> That's not any fun! What's the road block? Are you unable to control<br>> the HD receiver with Myth or something?<br><br></div>Unlike cable companies that are required by the FCC to offer Firewire
<br>output from their STB's, satellite companies are under no obligation<br>to output HD video in any sort of format that is readable by anything<br>other than a TV. Therefore, they offer HD output from their box as<br>
HDMI and Component (and probably s-video which is standard def).<br>There's no cost-effective way to capture HD content via HDMI or<br>Component from the box. It's better explained in the many other<br>threads on the list about this very same topic. :)
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>So it's focused on the HDMI output... that would answer almost all of my questions. Damn. Hopefully they'll come up with a solution for linux and HDMI in the near future cause I'm starting to itch for HD.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh<br><a href="mailto:TwoOneSix@thatclothingco.com">TwoOneSix@thatclothingco.com</a>