mythtv and hidef tv cards suggestions

[Colin McGregor]

On 1/25/10, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Have a look at the following page regarding the Hauppauge HVR-950Q and MythTV:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_HVR-950

Bottom line, there are drivers available, and it can be made to work
with MythTV. The above USB stick does have a reputation for being CPU
intensive when dealing with analog TV, but otherwise sounds pretty
good...

Some sources / resources when looking at MythTV can be seen on the GTALug Wiki:

http://gtalug.org/wiki/MythTV

Colin McGregor

> 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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