recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

[Jarod Wilson]

On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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 thought so, just wanted to be 100% clear. :)

>>> 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.

Yup!

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

Check out the Acer Aspire Revo. Base model is only $200, a number of folks using them now.

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> Thanks, Jarod

No problem, always happy to try to help.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com