[mythtv-users] ATSC 3.0 HDHR Quatro

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 19:20:32 UTC 2020


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:49 PM Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if Mythtv could be made to support it but it's interesting.

I would expect the internal support should be possible.
It is even possible it will all just work out of the box.

The 3rd party external recorder supporting HDHR
tuners also might just work without changes since the
new tuner will be using the same HTTP streaming
protocols as previous devices.

But in any case until the device(s) ship no one will
have one to test and develop with so it is mostly
theoretical at this point.

If someone really wants early support one might ask
on the developers mail list if a developer living in one
of the early cities for ATSC 3.0 would prioritize such
work in exchange for a free (to them) device for their
work and then purchase one for you and one for them
(or alternatively be prepared to write the patches
yourself as needed).  There are only a few devs who
have historically tended to the tuner/recorder codes.
I don't know the overlap between the experienced
devs and their locations for early ATSC 3.0 channels.

It should be noted that the upstream hdhomerun
library had initial updates for the new devices back
in early March.  I doubt most distros have updated to
that newer version of the library, and more updates
may be necessary, so the project may end up being
forced to bundle the library again for a time (as I
recall, the change was to recognize the new tuner
type as being a valid tuner, but I only skim commit
logs so there may be more).


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