[mythtv-users] Frontend as cable settop box--using Live-TV

[Phil Bridges]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>wrote:

> On 08/08/13 19:15, Kris B. wrote:
>
>> Your description about the quality of the LiveTV code (as it has evolved,
>>> not blaming anyone for that) is why I framed my question the way I did.
>>> I've gotten this impression after reading the mailing list for years:
>>> There may still be issues there, for some people, that require a
>>> particular
>>> sequence of events only on certain configurations to trigger, but even
>>> after finding identifying them and opening a ticket, the only way to
>>> really
>>> fix things is, as you say, with C-4 and start from the ground up.  I know
>>> the developers know this.  I also realize that starting from the ground
>>> up
>>> is alot of work and why it hasn't and may never happen.  Fine by me.
>>>
>>>
>> Even still - just throwing it out there - in the future if for some
>> reason Myth developers ripped out Live TV in their code - all you would
>> need to do is get an HDHomeRun, and run a viewing app as an external
>> program (which might even be a good idea now for those who want to
>> surf)... I don't think that will happen, but there are workarounds that
>> I'm sure someone could come up with for everyone.  If Myth doesn't know
>> about the tuner, it can't use it.
>>
>> I do watch Live TV several times a year - I'm a farmer (and an IT guy
>> for a bank).  Needing immediately knowledge of weather during storms is
>> important.  Also during events of importance (Zimmerman verdict was one
>> recently)... for the most part, though - if if is a show, it gets
>> recorded - we don't surf like the old days.
>>
>>  There's always the Russian option - most TVs these days actually have
> tuners in them. If someone wants to watch Live TV then perhaps they could
> do exactly that? It's the same signal that goes to all the tuners in the
> cupboard, after all. And it saves recording and viewing something you
> probably didn't want to save anyway, while myth carries on recording all
> the important stuff.
>
> --
>

I don't know of a TV that has an encrypted tuner built-in.
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