mythtv and hidef tv cards suggestions

Dave Germiquet davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 25 17:38:37 UTC 2010


Hi Lennart,

My friend has a HD-PVR USB adapter from haupauge 950q but I coudn't
find drivers for it. Which HD-PVR USB are you referring to? I would be
interested in doing something with a usb adapter if the price range is
ok.




On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:08:28PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote:
>> Hello Fellow Tlugers :)
>>
>> I was wondering if I can rebring a topic up :) What hidef cards are
>> relatively ok in price that you guys can suggest work with mythtv?
>>
>> I was hoping that I could get one that works with Hidef rogers cable
>> set top box?
>
> I have a rogers 4250HD box connected by firewire to mythtv.  I get about
> 200 channels that way in pure digital.  I haven't counted how many are
> HD, but certainly some are.  It took me 3 weeks to get going since I
> kept getting errors initially.  Turns out the firts firewire cable I got
> at tigerdirect was broken (a cheaper one from canada computers worked
> much better), and the firewire controller on an nforce2 is crap too,
> while the via one in my mythtv box works fine (as does the ricoh in my
> thinkpad SL500) when using a working cable.
>
> If you want to get ALL the channels you subscribe to, then the HD-PVR
> USB adapter from haupauge connected to the component output of the cable
> box and using an IR blaster (which I believe the USB device includes)
> will give you all of them, but it does involve going analog temporarily
> and recompressing.  Basicly some channels are flagged with copy protection
> and then you don't get a signal on firewire at all.  Why CBC HD is
> flagged and CTV HD is not I have no idea.
>
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