[mythtv-users] MythTV w/HD Sat or Cable? what hw to use? is the dolby preserved?

[Doug Larrick]

Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a MythTV box, running with an external tuner, pulling
> down HDTV signals from either Sat or Cable?
> 
> If so, what are you using to pull the feed into the MythTV backend
> hardware wise?  (i.e. how are you getting the "Dolby Digital COAX
> or Optical" + "S-video/component video" into the PC?)
> 
> Also, can the full Digital Audio (5.1) information, then be played back on
> a remote MythTV frontend?

Can't be done with current technology -- there is no hardware to 
capture, and not enough CPU to encode, HD-sized frames.  The most 
promising avenue is a cable/sat box with FireWire output.  You might try 
searching the archives at Gossamer for earlier discussions.

-Doug
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