[mythtv-users] Hardware for Over the Air Digital

[Travis Tabbal]

>
> All that I want to 'record' is the over-the-air HDTV broadcasts (ATSC?
> what's that stand for?). While I currently only care about a maximum of two
> feeds, it might be nice during something like the Olympics to have more
> recording capability, so something I could expand to four feeds might be
> worth looking into.
>
>
So you're going to put up an antenna? Or do you want to try to use the cable
coax you mentioned?



> I'm hesitant about the HDHomeRun simply because I don't want another box,
> but if that's clearly the best choice I am willing to reconsider. On the
> other hand, I guess with the HDHomeRun I could simply dump the streams to
> the server in the first place, so that is an option.
>
>
The HDHR is small, and it has an IR receiver so you can use a normal remote
control for the Myth machine. I haven't used any internal cards, so I can't
really compare.



> Oh, and I also am going to want to reencode the MPEG-2 streams to h.264
> (720p), though I expect to do that on the MacPro since it's a much faster
> machine. However, if anyone has any suggestions along those lines, I'm all
> ears.
>


Handbrake can do this on the Mac. There's also mythtranscode, but I've never
tried to do this with it.
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