[mythtv-users] MythTV - DirectTV - Grabbing Streams

[James L. Paul]

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On Thursday 06 November 2003 13:40, Jeff M. wrote:
> Hello,
>     Here's what I would like to do.  I'm going to build a test MythTV
> system for our company.  The purpose of this will be to save basketball
> games to CD or DVD for later review when the player is on the road or at
> home, etc. There a pro basketball trainer that my boss is partners with
> that got DirecTV and Tivo to record the games of the pro players he trains.
>  He then goes through the games on Tivo and records the clips and
> highlights of the player to VHS tape.  We then encode the VHS tape using
> WME and then burn to DVD/VCD.  These aren't the highest quality and after a
> lot of DtoA-AtoD conversion, there is a little bit of a visual problem.
>     If we could get the stream digitized just as it's recorded (hack the
> Tivo, etc), life would be a lot "gooder".  Anyway, this is where MythTV
> came into play.
>     What my question is, how hard is it to configure MythTV to control the
> DirecTV receiver (one is dual receiver/tivo and another is just the HDTV
> receiver (but the channels we're going to be recording aren't HDTV) and I'm
> going to test using just the receiver system)?
>     And the test system I plan on using is a AMD Duron 1.3, 256MB, 40GB,
> GeForce2 GTS 32MB.  I believe it would be best to get a card that has
> hardware MPEG-2 encoding.  I've been looking up info and noticed
> conflicting reports for the PVR-250.  Does the PVR-250 have hardware MPEG-2
> encoding or do I have to get a PVR-350?

The PVR-250 does indeed have MPEG2 hardware encoding. It does NOT have TV-out 
though, that is what the PVR-350 has. The PVR-350 also has a hardware MPEG2 
decoder. Some PVR-250 family cards also have a hardware decoder, but 
apparently none of the decoders in those cards are currently supported.

If money is not an issue, I recommend the PVR-350. I myself use two PVR-250's.

>     Thank you for your time and attention.. -Jeff
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