[mythtv-users] Connecting Zap2It data with HDTV channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/02/2007 09:54 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> You shouldn't really have 2 video sources.

By this I mean, specifically, that you should have only one video source 
for the digital channels.  If you have an analog capture card, you'll 
need a video source for that, too.  If that's not the case, feel free to 
ignore the rest of this post.

The best approach is to create one lineup on DataDirect for the analog 
channels and one lineup for the digital channels.  There actually /is/ 
different data in the HDTV and analog channels you select from 
DataDirect (i.e. you'll never see the "HDTV" flag in an analog channel, 
but on an HDTV channel, it will indicate which programs are broadcast in 
HDTV rather than up-scaled SDTV).  So, it's worthwhile to have separate 
video sources (and to do separate downloads).

If you were trying to be "nice" to DataDirect and conserve some of their 
bandwidth, thank you for the thought, but to make things work properly, 
you'll have to create 2 video sources (which means you'll have to 
download 2x.)  Having separate lineups for the different channels you 
get on different sources (even if you have duplicate channels in them) 
is not an abuse of DataDirect.

Mike