Re: MythTv Update

[Al Lopez <gnurocks@hotmail.com>]

As a matter of fact, yes!

However, my Mythbx is built with older parts (older MSI MB w/Northbridge and an AMD Athlon XP 2800+).  So, although I was getting HD video across firewire, is was extremely choppy at best.  The catch 22 wtih this setup was that I had to get the firewire setup going to get what I REALLY wanted out of it -- channel changing capability.

So, I could capture HD video, but it also severly dirsupted the ability to change channels for other programming.  Therefore, I had to disable HD video capture to use the channel changing function.  I know it's overkill to use a firewire cable to change channels on a cable box, but it's the only "open" port that Charter provided on the DCT-6200.  There is probably another way to make it all work, but I'm not too incredibly interested in capturing HD at this time (yet).

Cheers, Al Lopez
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> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:54:16 -0500
> From: chris@whitleyworld.com
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: Re: MythTv Update
> 
> Are you getting any HD channels through the cable box via firewire?
> 
> Chris Whitley
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Lopez 
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Sent: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:39:16 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: MythTv Update
> 
> 
> Steve (or anyone in the group),
> 
> I noticed in the March minutes that you covered MythTv for the last part of the agenda.  I'm new to the area, and I just went through a HUGE trial to get my Mythbox and a DCT-6200 (Charter Cable Box) to play nice via firewire.  Although there's a few quirks here and there, it's a pretty neat setup -- but there were a NUMBER of gotchas.
> 
> No less than four forums helped me out.  Could this be a topic folks would be interested in?
> 
> v/r Al Lopez
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