[mythtv-users] Image/schematic of wiring?

[Nick]

On 8/30/05, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:32:46 -0700, Dewey Smolka <dsmolka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's worth using analog capture because you get everything you'd
> > normally get, plus it uses a lot less space. I'd work on getting as
> > good an SD picture as possible before building up to HD. Those new
> > digital tuner boxes put out quite a clean signal.
> 
> Well, that's certainly true. But that does mean (I presume) that I have to
> get a tuner.<s> So I'd have an S-video cable coming from the cable box
> going to the tuner and an S-video cable going from the graphics card to
> the TV.

You'd have an S-Video connection between your cable box and the
S-Video input on a capture card (thus not using the tuner on the
capture card at all). The cable box puts out whatever it is tuned to
through the S-Video connection - the inability to tune to different
channels using this method results in the requirement for an
IR-Blaster to control the cable box from the computer.

Nick