[mythtv-users] Known ivtv+pchdtv 3000 combos?
David George
david at thegeorges.us
Tue Nov 23 15:55:57 UTC 2004
On 11/23/2004 8:40 AM, Mercury Morris wrote:
>In "background mode", I had been wondering about how I would
>actually view HDTV, should I ever get the HD-3000 working.
>
>Since no one has ever mentioned a PVR-350 and a HD-3000
>combination working together, I assumed that folks with only
>HD-3000 cards must have a way to view HDTV. In fact, the
>pcHDTV software download includes xine, so I thought that if
>the PVR-350 doesn't work, then xine would be a way to view
>recorded programs. I just got so discouraged, depressed, and
>frustrated with HD-3000, I gave no thought to watching live TV.
>But I do use xine to watch DVDs, and xine works, really works!
>
>So, how do you watch live HDTV on a HD-3000? Does it show
>up in a desktop window? Can live HDTV actually be watched?
>
>
I use an Audio Authority box to convert the VGA output from my nVidia
5200 card to component video which plugs into the tv. Key Digital also
makes a box that does this. You can also view on your computer
monitor. Yes, live hdtv can be watched.
>Answers to these questions don't really matter for me at the moment.
>I have SO much work ahead: move cards around the PCI slots to
>make room for a HD-3000, rebuild the latest HD-3000 drivers,
>then trial-and-error to get the drivers loaded and try to get
>a signal detected from the antenna. Actually seeing HDTV is a
>long, long way off.
>
>
Hang in there. It's coming. I am sure you posted it in the past, but
what distro/kernel/video card/audio card/output method/cpu horsepower
are you using? And are your frontend and backend on the same machine?
--
David
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