[mythtv-users] Known ivtv+pchdtv 3000 combos?

[David George]

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