[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR: Photos and link to pre-order

[Brad DerManouelian]

Josh White wrote:
> 
> So is this thing a tuner, or would you use another tuner (like a set-top 
> box) to feed feed it input via the component out from your external 
> device, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR just outputs the stream to the USB 
> port?  I guess that leads to the question could you control it via the 
> USB port (if it is a tuner), or is the USB strictly for sending data TO 
> the computer it's connected to? 

There's no tuner. It's a capture device, not a tuning device. You 
connect the component cables from your STB to it. Plug in the IR 
blaster. Plug in the USB cable. Wait for some magic to happen in the 
MythTV code to support all this stuff. Add it as another capture device 
in mythtv-setup. Then when it wants to record, a channel change script 
you set up that tells the device "I want channel 207." The device blasts 
the command "207<enter>" to the STB. It starts capturing video/audio, 
sends it h.264 compressed via USB to mythbackend which happily stores it 
on disk for you just like any other capture device.