[mythtv] Adding support for R5000 STB

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Mar 5 16:55:03 UTC 2008


On Mar 5, 2008, at 8:49 AM, David George wrote:

> On 02/21/2008 10:02 PM, Alan Nisota wrote:
>> Note that my work so far is only for Dish Network.  I'm not sure  
>> whether
>> the R5000 works for DirecTV HD, and I know that DirectTV SD usess DSS
>> rather than DVB (I have some code I worked on over a year ago to  
>> convert
>> DSS to DVB but I never got it all that reliable so it would need some
>> work, and I don't have access to a DirecTV enabled R5000 box to  
>> play with.
>>
>
> I saw your patch updates for DirecTV and wanted to let you know that I
> should have a R5000 modified DirecTV receiver soon.  Also wanted to  
> let
> anyone know before they get too excited the R5000 folks have already
> looked into the DirecTV MPEG4 receivers and said they cannot be
> supported.  I am hoping that maybe someday there will be a DirecTV  
> MPEG4
> receiver that can be supported, but it is a small hope.  Just in case
> you are wondering all the new HD channels that DirecTV has enabled the
> last few months are MPEG4 only.  There are a few MPEG2 HD channels,  
> like
> ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX from NYC and LA, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and a couple of  
> other
> older HD channels.

Thanks for the clarification on that. I was debating whether or not to  
get an R5000 modded box after seeing that code checked in or still  
wait for the Hauppauge PVR-HD or similar device.



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