<span class="gmail_quote">On 2/11/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hutchinson</b> <<a href="mailto:mark@onnow.net">mark@onnow.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
Jerry Rubinow wrote:<br>> On Feb 11, 2008 4:06 PM, Mark Hutchinson <<a href="mailto:mark@onnow.net">mark@onnow.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mark@onnow.net">mark@onnow.net</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>
> From the reading I have done, it looks as if the PVR-500<br>> Hauppauge will<br>> act as an S-Video device.<br>> Just a couple of questions regarding that.<br>> How is sound captured? I want to capture from a DCT-6200 box, so two<br>
> RCA jacks. Should that be directed into the mini-pin on the back<br>> of the<br>> PVR-500 card? Or into the sound in plug on your PCI sound card?<br>><br>><br>> Mini-pin? My PVR-500 has two coax connectors, an svideo, and three<br>
> rca connectors (one for video and two for l/r audio). The rca audio<br>> connectors is what you should connect the sound from the DCT-6200 to.<br>><br>> Also, what is this I have read about setting the channel on the<br>
> PVR-500<br>> to 3? How is that done when just being used as an S-Video capture<br>> device?<br>> Anything else I should know before configuring?<br>><br>><br>> You mean in setup? Or something else? Any channel changing will use<br>
> the external command you setup.<br>><br>><br>> Thanks all. I may have a working solution after this.<br>> Not as clear as firewire, but S-Video should look OK. Any comments on<br>> quality of S-Video?<br>
><br>><br>> This is the setup I use for all the SD digital content from my 6200,<br>> and it looks pretty good.<br>><br>> -Jerry<br>><br><br>Do you do anything different for HD recording? I may try to make a<br>
separate profile for recording HD channels from firewire ( channel<br>change and capture ) as that worked fine, SD capture from firewire was<br>where I ran into most problems.<br></blockquote><br>For all the HD that's in the clear, I use a QAM card to record straight off the coax, without going through the STB. For encrypted HD, I use the Hauppauge component input recorder. Or am I confusing real life with fantasy again? No, for encrypted HD I just record the SD equivalent and rail about the idiocy of the cable companies. Until the Hauppauge card is available in a few months.<br>
<br>Another option you have for HD is to use firewire, if your provider passes HD through in a recordable form.<br><br>-Jerry<br>