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beww at beww

Jul 24, 2008, 12:29 PM

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HDPVR 1212 setup, was: Better Satellite Service in the US

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:22:01 Steve Heistand wrote:
> > I have decided that with the recent availability of naked DSL I want to
> > switch to one of the satellite television providers for the US. I
> > currently run Myth with a PVR-500 and analog cable. I would like to
> > record HD as I have a HD TV and a decently powerful (AMD 64 x2 5?00)
> > Myth PC. Is either of the satellite companies providing IEEE-1394 ports
> > or other ways to get HD content into a Myth box? I would be happy
> > setting up OTA HD for my local stations. The only other stations I watch
> > are HGTV and Discovery. Both of which are available 5C encrypted on my
> > cable service.
> >
> > Any advice or pointers from those who have satellite hooked into their
> > Myth box?
>
> have 2 of the Hauppauge hd-pvr units hooked up to my mythtv box and
> directv. I love it. the thing has almost restored my faith in humanity its
> that good. of course it will be made illegal (the device or component
> outputs) sometime soon I suspect :(

What drivers are you using? A quick howto would be nice, if possible.

I figured I'd wait a while until the devices are more mainstream, but I
wanted to buy one right away, before they become scarce.

beww
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kkuphal at gmail

Jul 24, 2008, 12:37 PM

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Re: HDPVR 1212 setup, was: Better Satellite Service in the US [In reply to]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Brian Wood <beww[at]beww.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:22:01 Steve Heistand wrote:
> > > I have decided that with the recent availability of naked DSL I want to
> > > switch to one of the satellite television providers for the US. I
> > > currently run Myth with a PVR-500 and analog cable. I would like to
> > > record HD as I have a HD TV and a decently powerful (AMD 64 x2 5?00)
> > > Myth PC. Is either of the satellite companies providing IEEE-1394 ports
> > > or other ways to get HD content into a Myth box? I would be happy
> > > setting up OTA HD for my local stations. The only other stations I
> watch
> > > are HGTV and Discovery. Both of which are available 5C encrypted on my
> > > cable service.
> > >
> > > Any advice or pointers from those who have satellite hooked into their
> > > Myth box?
> >
> > have 2 of the Hauppauge hd-pvr units hooked up to my mythtv box and
> > directv. I love it. the thing has almost restored my faith in humanity
> its
> > that good. of course it will be made illegal (the device or component
> > outputs) sometime soon I suspect :(
>
> What drivers are you using? A quick howto would be nice, if possible.
>
> I figured I'd wait a while until the devices are more mainstream, but I
> wanted to buy one right away, before they become scarce.
>
> I believe everything you're looking for is in the wiki

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR

Kevin

steve at heistand

Jul 24, 2008, 12:44 PM

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Re: HDPVR 1212 setup, was: Better Satellite Service in the US [In reply to]

> What drivers are you using? A quick howto would be nice, if possible.
>
> I figured I'd wait a while until the devices are more mainstream, but I
> wanted to buy one right away, before they become scarce.
>

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
explains most of it.
it does require running a custom built latest svn tree of mythtv
as you have to use a different v4l-dvb version and hdpvr drivers only in svn.
(add --dvb-path=/usr/local/src/hdpvr/linux/include to the mythtv configure option
after you have downloaded and built the hdpvr as explained in the wiki)
that Im sure will eventually change once everything is stable and functioning
with the hdpvr drivers.

it also has issues switching resolutions so I force my satellite boxes to
always output 720p no matter what the source. 1080 also works but I only
have a 720 tv.

changing channels is as always with mythtv and external boxes challenging.
I have the usb-uirt thingies which work quite well. run IR senders from them
and tape them to the boxes to keep interference down.
lirc works just fine and I put together a channel changing script for mythtv
once I found the device codes for the directv remote.

it is still beta and not fully functional, but work is being done and for
recording I have had no problems. livetv is questionable at the moment.
I record 6-8 shows a day from them. (stocking up for when drm kills tv...)

default recording rate is ~2G/hour at 720p. transcoding is of little help
given my choices of post-transcoded bitrates. looks great, no different then
the feed direct from the directv box.

I think that covers everything I can think of...

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jedi at mishnet

Jul 24, 2008, 4:08 PM

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Re: HDPVR 1212 setup, was: Better Satellite Service in the US [In reply to]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:29:22PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:22:01 Steve Heistand wrote:
> > > I have decided that with the recent availability of naked DSL I want to
> > > switch to one of the satellite television providers for the US. I
> > > currently run Myth with a PVR-500 and analog cable. I would like to
> > > record HD as I have a HD TV and a decently powerful (AMD 64 x2 5?00)
> > > Myth PC. Is either of the satellite companies providing IEEE-1394 ports
> > > or other ways to get HD content into a Myth box? I would be happy
> > > setting up OTA HD for my local stations. The only other stations I watch
> > > are HGTV and Discovery. Both of which are available 5C encrypted on my
> > > cable service.
> > >
> > > Any advice or pointers from those who have satellite hooked into their
> > > Myth box?
> >
> > have 2 of the Hauppauge hd-pvr units hooked up to my mythtv box and
> > directv. I love it. the thing has almost restored my faith in humanity its
> > that good. of course it will be made illegal (the device or component
> > outputs) sometime soon I suspect :(
>
> What drivers are you using? A quick howto would be nice, if possible.
>
> I figured I'd wait a while until the devices are more mainstream, but I
> wanted to buy one right away, before they become scarce.

Janneg's version of v4l is actually rediculously simple to deal with.

It's still a little raw yet but it's more or less already there.

Just follow the pointers to his murcurial repository (posted here a while
back) and follow the build instructions.
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