[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR: Photos and link to pre-order

[Mitch Gore]

from a myth perspective its basically a firewire capture.  except over
usb and x264 vid.  the blaster would pry integrate into lirc.
everyone seems to be overcomplicating this device.

On 4/4/08, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> Josh White wrote:
> >
> > So is this thing a tuner, or would you use another tuner (like a set-top
> > box) to feed feed it input via the component out from your external
> > device, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR just outputs the stream to the USB
> > port?  I guess that leads to the question could you control it via the
> > USB port (if it is a tuner), or is the USB strictly for sending data TO
> > the computer it's connected to?
>
> There's no tuner. It's a capture device, not a tuning device. You
> connect the component cables from your STB to it. Plug in the IR
> blaster. Plug in the USB cable. Wait for some magic to happen in the
> MythTV code to support all this stuff. Add it as another capture device
> in mythtv-setup. Then when it wants to record, a channel change script
> you set up that tells the device "I want channel 207." The device blasts
> the command "207<enter>" to the STB. It starts capturing video/audio,
> sends it h.264 compressed via USB to mythbackend which happily stores it
> on disk for you just like any other capture device.
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