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I just switched to the HD-PVR 1212 after a recent software upgrade by
Time Warner Cable disabled all firewire options. I also installed a
cheap 8400GT Nvidia card for VDPAU. Recording is perfect, playback is a
bit buggy, but that may be the cheap part of the graphics card as
opposed to a software issue. I think the 190 Nvidia driver is fixing
that, implying it was a software issue(just not a MythTV one), but I
just installed it as I write this and haven't had time for full testing.<br>
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It is fairly stable. My biggest problem is that exporting to a video
file is now a 2 step process. Mythtranscode doesn't support lossless
transcoding on H264 encoded files, nor has Nuvexport yet been altered
to support exporting from them. Thus the only way I can think of to cut
the commercials and then export is to use Mythtranscode to convert the
H264 back to NUV then use Nuvexport without trying some more untested
hacks of the system.<br>
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MythTV 0.22 seems to be working very well, aside from a mythtranscode
segfault that was quickly fixed. I'm looking forward to its stable
edition. <br>
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If you are willing to go bleeding, and contribute to the process of
finalizing 0.22 by contributing detailed bug reports, you might want to
give it a shot.<br>
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:31:48 -0600
From: Brian Wood <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:beww@beww.org"><beww@beww.org></a>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Alternatives to cable firewire
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On Saturday 25 July 2009 18:17:09 Robert McNamara wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Oz<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ozdror@adelphia.net"><ozdror@adelphia.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">hi,
My cable company finally blocked all the good channel for firewire
for example when I change channel from PBS to NGC (all in HD)
I get this error
LFireDev(001BDDFFFE088551), Warning: No Input in 750 msec...
Any Ideas for alternative HD DVR with mythtv.
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<pre wrap="">Hauppauge HD-PVR and the due-very-soon MythTV .22
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<pre wrap="">What about Directtv over firewire
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<pre wrap="">Someone will doubtless say "oh yeah, I heard some DirecTV/Dish/etc.
boxes have firewire outputs." They always do. Unfortunately in my
experience with myth, I have NEVER heard of an actual (currently
available and compatible with current codecs) box for either provider
with firewire, nor of anyone capturing with Myth with them. In my
experience, it's 100% hearsay.
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There are apparently "jeeped" satellite receivers available that will output
the data stream via firewire, but they violate the TOS with the satellite
provider.
This is "hearsay", but I heard it from one of the DISH engineers, who was
complaining that even he was not allowed to obtain one of these receivers for
experimental use.
I'd be careful about ordering one of these receivers, you would have no
recourse if the seller sent you nothing, and if the seller got busted they
might well turn over the customer ist to the authorities.
So it's probably more correct to simply say that no sice devices are
available.
The only way to record HD from a satellite receiver today is the Hauppauge
HD-PVR-1212, the support for which is still classed as experimental, though
some folks seem to be having good results.
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