<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Tom Hayward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com" target="_blank">esarfl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
</span>Why are you using a DTA? Something like an HDHomeRun Prime that<br>
directly captures the MPEG2 stream is going to be much higher quality<br>
(and more reliable) than going through an analog capture card.<br>
<br>
How are you using the DTA? I assumed an analog capture card, but<br>
that's just a guess. Is there firewire on it or something? Can you<br>
change channels over firewire?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><div>I'm still using my circa 1998 Sharp 27" CRT TV, so HD is
irrelevant. I may one day switch to something like the Ceton InfiniTV
6, but inertia and other projects (like my never ending attempts at
migration from Ubuntu 10.04 based MythTV 0.23.20100314-1 !!!) make this a
low priority.<br><br></div>My set up is four DTAs controlled by
hardwired optoisolator links plugged into the rear IR extender ports (in
lieu of IR LEDs taped to the DTA faces with attendant cross-talk
issues) from an IguanaWorks USB iguanaIR transceiver feeding two Channel
3 & 4 signal combiners which in turn feed into a pair of Hauppauge
PVR-500 PCI capture cards. No firewire involved, just USB and video
signals. Yeah, I'm paying Comcast $16 per month for the DTAs, but it
hasn't been painful enough to justify buying a $280 "fix". Besides, I
suspect that I'd have a _big_ problem getting anything like the Ceton to
work with my current Ubuntu 10.04 / MythTV 0.23 system. Even with my
current capability to record four shows concurrently, I occasionally
have recordings that get postponed to later due to overloaded
programming, so two or three stream (channel?) devices would have to be
bought in multiples, upping the capital outlay. So I endure. ;-)<br><br><br></div></div>