[Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

I have the Pinnacle 800i PCTV HD Card and I'm fighting to get it to work
with MythTV/MythBuntu.  Every attempt I get closer.  I know for linux the
only option for HD tuning used to be pcHDTV.  I've heard it works well, but
never seen one in action.  The HDHomeRun seems like a great bet to me since
I think all you do is setup the tuner box and it streams over ethernet. HDHR
has 2 tuners and can handle ATSC or QAM (unencrypted cable) so it should
work with OTA and Mediacom.  Last time I checked mediacom's offerings for HD
they sucked anyways, you're better off just pulling in the OTA or QAM, you
won't get much extra, and the only DVR likely to work with medicom's
"extended" HD offerings would be their own DVR box.

--Justin

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey <
jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:

> I don't think HDHR will ever do CableCard. CableLabs wouldn't certify it,
> so they could never sell it. Typical..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:19:22 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?
>
> Maybe for Digital cable somebody knows better, but I think we are SOL.
>
> Somebody here turned me on to the silicon HDHomerun and it is a pretty neat
> dual-tuner setup.  http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun
>
> Maybe they will introduce one that accepts cablecards in the future.
>
> Don't forget, you actually have to have a machine capable of playing back
> HD.  I think my backend machine will do some but my front-end, a 1.2 Ghz
> shuttle, will not.
>
> -Nate
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> > [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:15 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: [Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?
> >
> > For those of you MythTV users... what's the current state of
> > the art for
> > HD tuners for MythTV?
> >
> > I'm updating to a HDTV for xmas, and thinking about re-building my
> > MythTV box. Have a PVR-250 card I can use for SD encoding, but I'm
> > thinking about getting a HD card too.
> >
> > I don't have HD service yet (other than OTA). Currently my
> > only option
> > at my condo is Mediacom cable, and I'm only doing Extended
> > Basic at this
> > point. I've been trying to work on getting dish service in
> > the building,
> > but that's a longer process that has to go through the condo
> > association.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
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