[mythtv-users] HDTV with Comcast

[Shay - MythTV]

At 10:05 AM 3/30/2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:50:07PM -0800, Ian Forde wrote:
> > Well... it sort of does and sort of doesn't.  I just did a little
> > googling and found project Coriander.  One of the things is can
> > purportedly do is export firewire to a v4l interface.  But it's a GNOME
> > app, so there would probably need to be some hacking done to automate it
> > to the point that it's usable from within myth...
>
>A friend of mine has the Comcast HDTV box with the firewire ports enabled,
>although I don't remember the model number.  Last night, we tried out
>Coriander, and it refused to start, saying that there weren't any cameras
>connected; obviously, the cable box dosen't identify itself as a camera.
>
>He does have a program written by someone from the avsforums that we
>were able to use to pull video from the box.  It comes across as an
>mpeg transport stream that mplayer was able to play.
>
>I'm going to setup a machine to leave at his place this weekend so I can
>try to get MythTV to record from it.  It'll likely be slow going, as I'm
>not familliar with the code yet.

Sweeeeettt..   what is the speed of the machine you used to record, and how 
was the quality?  Seems like a lot of people on the avsforums had problems 
with quality due to lack of speed.

-Shay