<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Devine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lifter89@comcast.net">lifter89@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 07/01/2010 02:09 PM, Brent Meyer wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Harry Devine<<a href="mailto:lifter89@comcast.net" target="_blank">lifter89@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">... could<br>
I hook up 1 of those DTA boxes to the pcHDTV card and still capture the<br>
recordings that it used to provide me on the basic 2-99 channels? If it can<br>
be done, are there any specific issues or wiring considerations?<br>
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The HD-5500 has an analog tuner that works fine in Myth, so you can<br>
still use your HD-5500 to capture analog video from the DTA box. There<br>
is, however, a big caveat--you'll need a way to change channels on the<br>
DTA box (that is, you'll need an IR blaster of some sort, and you'll<br>
need to configure lirc to talk to the DTA).<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Harry, </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">One other thing to note - although the HD-5500 has an analog tuner, it does not have a hardware MPEG encoder, so therefore it is just a 'framegrabber' card. Therefore MythTV will have to compress it on the fly, requiring much more CPU than tuning in a Digital signal and just dumping the stream to disk... </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">J-e-f-f-A</div>