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hondaman at hardcs

Feb 21, 2005, 9:25 AM

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Dumb Question Regarding TV Capture and DirectTV

I have never done tv capture before, so this is an incredibly basic
question for which I cant find an answer. I have directtv, and a
wintv-pvr 250. How do I recieve the signal from the satellite dish?

Directly from the dish into the card?
From the satellite reciever box to the card? If so, which
connection(s) do I use?
The tv-out via coax to the card?
The svid-out to the card?
And what about the digital-audio spdif connection on the back of the
satellite reciever? Can mythtv use that?

Thank you.

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david at thegeorges

Feb 21, 2005, 9:33 AM

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Re: Dumb Question Regarding TV Capture and DirectTV [In reply to]

On 2/21/2005 12:25 PM, hondaman wrote:

> I have never done tv capture before, so this is an incredibly basic
> question for which I cant find an answer. I have directtv, and a
> wintv-pvr 250. How do I recieve the signal from the satellite dish?
>
> Directly from the dish into the card?
> From the satellite reciever box to the card? If so, which
> connection(s) do I use?
> The tv-out via coax to the card?
> The svid-out to the card?

Connect the S-Video output and the L/R audio output to the corresponding
inputs on the PVR-250

> And what about the digital-audio spdif connection on the back of the
> satellite reciever? Can mythtv use that?

I haven't seen anyone using that yet. I have a similar setup (except
two Directv receivers going into to PVR-250) and I just use the stereo
audio. Of course I don't have any of the movie channels and not having
DD5.1 from satellite hasn't bothered me enough to look into adding
support for it.

Don't forget you will also need a channel changer script. There are
several scripts available for different receivers (search the archives
for directv channel script, or something like that). If you are lucky
enough to have receivers with serial ports that is usually easier than
setting up an ir blaster to control the sat receiver.

--
David

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ravenhair at gmail

Feb 21, 2005, 9:58 AM

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Re: Dumb Question Regarding TV Capture and DirectTV [In reply to]

I've got the S-Video out to my pvr-250 with the audio as well. Works
well and the quality is just fine. The cagle would work just as well
without requirng the audio cable and leaving the better quality
S-Video to the TV. The only catch might be the cable trying to use the
tuner. I know ou can tell it to use the external tuner scipt and get
by that. I have yet to hook up my serial cable to the "low speed data
port" (now where did i leave that soldeing iron....) So right now i
have to setup my recordings in myth then set the satellite box to
autotune. It's a bit annoying but working for the moment.

Mike Luich

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:25:39 -0600, hondaman <hondaman [at] hardcs> wrote:
> I have never done tv capture before, so this is an incredibly basic
> question for which I cant find an answer. I have directtv, and a
> wintv-pvr 250. How do I recieve the signal from the satellite dish?
>
> Directly from the dish into the card?
> From the satellite reciever box to the card? If so, which
> connection(s) do I use?
> The tv-out via coax to the card?
> The svid-out to the card?
> And what about the digital-audio spdif connection on the back of the
> satellite reciever? Can mythtv use that?
>
> Thank you.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

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