<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> 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><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Jesse Michelsen wrote:<br>
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> So I am a real cheap guy and don't really want to pay for cable or<br>
> satellite TV when there are enough perfectly good TV shows coming over<br>
> the waves free. I got my free coupons for DTV converter boxes from the<br>
> government so I can keep watching free TV until my wife finally says<br>
> "I<br>
> WANT REAL CHANNELS"<br>
> Well my question here is this. Has anyone had success running mythtv<br>
> with DTV + antenna as the input? I am having trouble here, heres how<br>
> its<br>
> set up.<br>
> The DTV box:<br>
> has antenna in (coax)<br>
> coax out<br>
> AV out<br>
><br>
> normally the antenna would come in, and coax or av would go out to a<br>
> TV<br>
> tuned to channel 3 or 4, whatever the dtv box was set to. The channels<br>
> then have to be changed via the dtv remote, the TV staying on ch3/4<br>
><br>
> tvtime is the same way, tune to ch3/4 and dtv+antenna come in fine and<br>
> channels are changed on the dtv<br>
><br>
> with mythtv I figure it would work the same way but then I wouldn't<br>
> really be able to record anything in the normal fashion. I could set<br>
> myth to record channel 3 and change the channel on the dtv to the<br>
> show I<br>
> wanted to record but that isn't quite the setup one would want and<br>
> even<br>
> that I am having trouble with. This is my first PC-TV setup ever and<br>
> its<br>
> been quite a painful journey but I think it will be worth it in the<br>
> end.<br>
> Until then, does anyone have any ideas? I have searched all over the<br>
> net<br>
> but its kinda weird and unique setup I think and I haven't found any<br>
> info.<br>
> sorry so lengthy<br>
<br>
</div></div>You have two choices for (strictly) over the air programming. The<br>
first one is exactly like you thought it would work:<br>
1. Use your converter box and current analog capture device. Tell myth<br>
to tune the analog capture card to channel 3 and tell mythtv to change<br>
the channel on the DTV box. This will require an IR blaster to send<br>
the correct commands to the DTV box. This is assuming you have a DTV<br>
box with known remote control that lirc can control.<br>
<br>
2. Replace your analog capture card with a digital one and let mythtv<br>
tune the card to the correct channel. I only have expensive digital<br>
capture cards ($129 for my pcHDTV-5500 and $170 for an HDHomeRun with<br>
2 tuners), so I don't know how well the cheaper ones work but I know<br>
there are cheaper ones.<br>
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-Brad<br>
</font><div></div></blockquote><div><br>For the OP: If you have a pci slot, you might be able to get a Dvico Fusion HDTV5 RT Gold for cheap. They were recently discontinued and retailers that have them left on their shelves are dumping them. Might be harder to find now - I got mine a few weeks ago from <a href="http://snapstream.com">snapstream.com</a>. <br>
<br>I dumped cable just before starting this project, so as far as I could see, not having cable for one month paid for mine. <br><br>Otherwise, the card works great - I didn't even have to build drivers for it.<br><br>
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