[mythtv-users] S-Video capture details via PVR-500

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 2/11/08, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net> wrote:
>
> Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 2008 4:06 PM, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net
> > <mailto:mark at onnow.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     From  the reading I have done, it looks as if the PVR-500
> >     Hauppauge will
> >     act as an S-Video device.
> >     Just a couple of questions regarding that.
> >     How is sound captured?  I want to capture from a DCT-6200 box, so
> two
> >     RCA jacks.  Should that be directed into the mini-pin on the back
> >     of the
> >     PVR-500 card?  Or into the sound in plug on your PCI sound card?
> >
> >
> > Mini-pin?  My PVR-500 has two coax connectors, an svideo, and three
> > rca connectors (one for video and two for l/r audio).  The rca audio
> > connectors is what you should connect the sound from the DCT-6200 to.
> >
> >     Also, what is this I have read about setting the channel on the
> >     PVR-500
> >     to 3?  How is that done when just being used as an S-Video capture
> >     device?
> >     Anything else I should know before configuring?
> >
> >
> > You mean in setup?  Or something else?  Any channel changing will use
> > the external command you setup.
> >
> >
> >     Thanks all.  I may have a working solution after this.
> >     Not as clear as firewire, but S-Video should look OK.  Any comments
> on
> >     quality of S-Video?
> >
> >
> > This is the setup I use for all the SD digital content from my 6200,
> > and it looks pretty good.
> >
> > -Jerry
> >
>
> Do you do anything different for HD recording?  I may try to make a
> separate profile for recording HD channels from firewire ( channel
> change and capture ) as that worked fine, SD capture from firewire was
> where I ran into most problems.
>

For all the HD that's in the clear, I use a QAM card to record straight off
the coax, without going through the STB.  For encrypted HD, I use the
Hauppauge component input recorder.  Or am I confusing real life with
fantasy again?  No, for encrypted HD I just record the SD equivalent and
rail about the idiocy of the cable companies.  Until the Hauppauge card is
available in a few months.

Another option you have for HD is to use firewire, if your provider passes
HD through in a recordable form.

-Jerry
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