recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

>>>> Does Myth support this yet?
>>> 
>>> If you're talking about the video hardware portion, yes, fully
>>> supported in MythTV 0.22. For the IR part, MythTV doesn't care. You
>>> just set up your channel change script like you always have, now
>>> containing irsend commands that operate on the transmitter device
>>> lirc sets up for the IR part.

For the record, I knew the video portion was fully supported in 0.22.
I was just talking about the irsend capabilities.

>> I only have ivtv and firewire devices.  I've never used an IR Blaster.
>> So I have no clue how to set up a script to use one, where I would find
>> such a script, or how to use one with an HD-PVR.  Is there some tutorial?
>> I suspect I'll need one in the next 6 months.
>
> I don't think there's anything official anywhere just yet, just some
> references to posts on the mythtv mailing lists... The only part that
> is specific to the hdpvr is the device driver patching (which isn't
> needed for Fedora 11 or Fedora 12, since I've added those there
> already). From there, its pretty much the same as the PVR-150 and
> HVR-1600 IR blasters, so step 11 and on here is fairly relevant:
>
> http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24
>
> The lirc_zilog driver started out as lirc_pvr150 from the above, but
> was renamed (since it also drives the IR part on the HVR-1600 and
> HD-PVR) and significantly updated in my lirc git tree.

So I just need to use the lirc_zilog driver, and the version in F11/F12
is already patched for the HD-PVR, so there's nothing I need to build
myself?  Excellent.  That makes my choices much easier.

Now I just need to find a good, small, VDPAU-capable frontend machine
:-)

Thanks, Jarod

-derek
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