[mythtv-users] Full HD MythTV

[Nick F]

On 10/26/07, Nick F <nikos.f at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/07, Milos Prudek <prudek at bvx.cz> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is how do you plan to get "Full HDTV" out of your
> > satellite
> > > receiver and then capture it?
> >
> > I do not want to buy a satellite receiver. I currently do not have a
> > satellite
> > receiver. I would purchase Skystar HD - I thought that SkyStar can
> > capture
> > HDTV signal. Am I wrong? Is no such card available yet?
>
>
> Milos - people are assuming you are in the US - I'm guessing you are the
> Czech republic given your email address.  It might help if you say what HD
> signal you want to capture.  Here in the UK - to capture the BBC HD
> transmission you 'just' need a DVB-S card - and it tunes the same as any
> regular channel (decoding and playing back the captured H.264 file in
> realtime is another story all together).  I believe much of the rest of
> Europe (and Sky HD) use DVB-S2.  The SkystarHD is a S2 card which is what
> I'm assuming you are referring to.  If you have a Linux driver for it - it's
> plug and play with Myth.  If not - don't know what to do.  When I looked at
> DVB-S2 a few months ago, Linux support was still pretty scarce.  I'd take a
> look at http://www.linuxtv.org/ to determine the status of Linux support.
>


Looks like you SkystarHD is a rebranded Technotrend TT-S2-3200 (which is a
good thing).

Looks like an experimental driver is available :
http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto/

On your CPU/GPU needs - find out what codec is being used (H.264 etc) to
determine what's needed.  I'd say certainly more beefy than what you have
now.
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