[mythtv-users] MythTV and HDTV?

[Tim Tait]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Tuesday 15 June 2004 13:09, Peter Lee wrote:
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>>On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ed Benckert wrote:
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>>>I use Myth right now just for images, video, and music... my TV is
>>>fed from my Tivo upstairs. I'm expanding my home theatre and was
>>>thinking of getting a HDTV DirecTV tuner for the basement and
>>>setting up Myth to PVR for it... can Myth handle HDTV? I'm assuming
>>>I'd need some special capture card, which I have not seen
>>>anywhere... so my inital thoughts are "No"
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>>There is indeed a pcHDTV card.  Check out http://www.pchdtv.com/.  A
>>number of people are working on Myth support for this, see for
>>example
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/54285?search_strin
>>g=pchdt v;#54285.
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>>Note that decoding HDTV seems to require a fast processor (on the
>>order of 3GHz).
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>>>Will a DirecTV HDTV tuner have both HDTV and non-hdtv outputs on
>>>it? I'm thinking I can run the HDTV directly to my projector, and
>>>the svideo to the myth box. Maybe? Anyone have a setup anything
>>>like this?
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>>I don't know about the DirecTV HDTV tuner, but my Comcast-provided
>>Motorola HDTV cable box has both component outputs (for hdtv) and
>>svideo output (for normal TV).  For a while I was piping the svideo
>>output to my mythtv box, and the component video output directly to
>>the component video input on my hdtv.  Then, I would switch to svideo
>>mode on the tv to watch mythtv, and to component mode to watch HDTV.
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Why does no-one make a component video capture solution??? Maybe that 
should be the next hardware  project (like pcHDTV)?

Tim