[mythtv] Adding support for R5000 STB

[David George]

On 02/21/2008 10:02 PM, Alan Nisota wrote:
> Note that my work so far is only for Dish Network.  I'm not sure whether 
> the R5000 works for DirecTV HD, and I know that DirectTV SD usess DSS 
> rather than DVB (I have some code I worked on over a year ago to convert 
> DSS to DVB but I never got it all that reliable so it would need some 
> work, and I don't have access to a DirecTV enabled R5000 box to play with.
>   

I saw your patch updates for DirecTV and wanted to let you know that I 
should have a R5000 modified DirecTV receiver soon.  Also wanted to let 
anyone know before they get too excited the R5000 folks have already 
looked into the DirecTV MPEG4 receivers and said they cannot be 
supported.  I am hoping that maybe someday there will be a DirecTV MPEG4 
receiver that can be supported, but it is a small hope.  Just in case 
you are wondering all the new HD channels that DirecTV has enabled the 
last few months are MPEG4 only.  There are a few MPEG2 HD channels, like 
ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX from NYC and LA, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and a couple of other 
older HD channels.

-- 
David