[mythtv-users] Alternatives to cable firewire

[DISAFAN]

I just switched to the HD-PVR 1212 after a recent software upgrade by 
Time Warner Cable disabled all firewire options. I also installed a 
cheap 8400GT Nvidia card for VDPAU. Recording is perfect, playback is a 
bit buggy, but that may be the cheap part of the graphics card as 
opposed to a software issue. I think the 190 Nvidia driver is fixing 
that, implying it was a software issue(just not a MythTV one), but I 
just installed it as I write this and haven't had time for full testing.

It is fairly stable. My biggest problem is that exporting to a video 
file is now a 2 step process. Mythtranscode doesn't support lossless 
transcoding on H264 encoded files, nor has Nuvexport yet been altered to 
support exporting from them. Thus the only way I can think of to cut the 
commercials and then export is to use Mythtranscode to convert the H264 
back to NUV then use Nuvexport without trying some more untested hacks 
of the system.

MythTV 0.22 seems to be working very well, aside from a mythtranscode 
segfault that was quickly fixed. I'm looking forward to its stable edition.

If you are willing to go bleeding, and contribute to the process of 
finalizing 0.22 by contributing detailed bug reports, you might want to 
give it a shot.

> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:31:48 -0600
> From: Brian Wood<beww at beww.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Alternatives to cable firewire
> To: Discussion about mythtv<mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID:<200907251831.48994.beww at beww.org>
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> On Saturday 25 July 2009 18:17:09 Robert McNamara wrote:
>    
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Oz<ozdror at adelphia.net>  wrote:
>>      
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> My cable company finally blocked all the good channel for firewire
>>>
>>> for example when I change channel from PBS to NGC (all in HD)
>>> I get this error
>>>
>>>
>>> LFireDev(001BDDFFFE088551), Warning: No Input in 750 msec...
>>>
>>> Any Ideas for alternative HD DVR with mythtv.
>>>        
>> Hauppauge HD-PVR and the due-very-soon MythTV .22
>>
>>      
>>> What about Directtv over firewire
>>>        
>> Someone will doubtless say "oh yeah, I heard some DirecTV/Dish/etc.
>> boxes have firewire outputs."  They always do.  Unfortunately in my
>> experience with myth, I have NEVER heard of an actual (currently
>> available and compatible with current codecs) box for either provider
>> with firewire, nor of anyone capturing with Myth with them.  In my
>> experience, it's 100% hearsay.
>>      
>
> There are apparently "jeeped" satellite receivers available that will output
> the data stream via firewire, but they violate the TOS with the satellite
> provider.
>
> This is "hearsay", but I heard it from one of the DISH engineers, who was
> complaining that even he was not allowed to obtain one of these receivers for
> experimental use.
>
> I'd be careful about ordering one of these receivers, you would have no
> recourse if the seller sent you nothing, and if the seller got busted they
> might well turn over the customer ist to the authorities.
>
> So it's probably more correct to simply say that no sice devices are
> available.
>
> The only way to record HD from a satellite receiver today is the Hauppauge
> HD-PVR-1212, the support for which is still classed as experimental, though
> some folks seem to be having good results.
>
>    

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