[mythtv] Netowrked ATSC Tuner

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 19:15:09 UTC 2006


On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:52, jafa wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am involved in a networked ATSC tuner (dual tuners, 100baseTX network).
>
> The video stream is UDP based and it has a TCP control channel. Two
> machines can independently control the two tuners if desired.
>
> I have just recently started playing with MythTV and I would like to add
> MythTV support.
>
> One approach could be to use a user-space app to receive the TS and
> create a loopback driver so it looks like a normal video capture device.
>
> Another approach would be to add support directly to MythTV. This would
> avoid looping through the kernel and would be easier for end-users.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I am quite happy writing the code for it, or would be able to arrange
> samples if anyone was interested in helping out.
>
> Nick

why not just install a remote MythTV backend on the machine with the ATSC 
tuners?

-- 
Steve


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