[mythtv-users] settop box with peritel output

[Philippe Bégou]

Jakob,

The cabling seems OK, although it might be done in a different way (I 
use a [S-video+ 1 audio jack] to SCART cable purchased at Carrefour to 
connect my VHS recorder to my Hauppauge PVR 350 video acquisition card. 
Because the SCART plug is directional, I had to exchange input and 
output pins)
However a great function of myth is the ability to program recordings 
directly from the TV guide. How do you intend to do this with the freebox ?

Jakob Fix a écrit :

>Hi,
>
>I am in the planning phase for my myth box (for quite some time ... :-)
>
>First some background:  I am living in France, and ISPs here offer
>settop boxes for the ADSL connexions.  I am with a provider called
>Free (http://adsl.free.fr) who offers the "freebox" which is as they
>say a "triple play" terminal, ie it provides me with 10MBit/s (the
>adverts say up to 20MBit/s) internet access, TV channels, and free
>voip telephone.
>
>For the tv functionality they provide a "peritel" output (I'm pretty
>sure it's not the correct term, and may be called differently
>elsewhere), it's this almost rectangular plug except that one of the
>short sides of the rectangle being slightly "skewed".
>
>I read in a forum
>(http://forums.grenouille.com/index.php?showtopic=14658, it's in
>French but with lots of pictures) a way to connect the peritel output
>to a video acquisition card (the one shown is an external USB device
>from Dazzle).
>
>I'd like to know whether people on this list have experience with this
>kind of setup, and what kind of internal video acquisition cards they
>can recommend for this scenario.  My current tv card is a Leadtek
>Winfast which only has a RCA connector.
>
>Unlike the intended purpose (to put the box underneath or on top of
>the telly), I'd like to connect it to my myth(ical) backend in the
>garage and watch the output on a frontend ...
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
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