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

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net> wrote:
> Mitch Gore wrote:
>  > 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.
>  >>
>  True.  The advantage here would be removing the 5c or encryption from
>  the stream correct?

Not really removing, more like circumventing. Once the signal is on
the component outputs its analog and 5C no longer exists.


-- 
Steve
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