[mythtv-users] [UK] - What's the best way to capture from a Sky digibox?

[George Poulson]

On 23 November 2010 12:45, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com>wrote:


> So capturing from sky (or virgin) legally and within the agreed terms of
> service would be via component capture (hdhomerun) using a scart breakout
> lead or svideo.
>
Yes - that's what I want to do.


> With regard to the huge delays... you need to quantify that. Is it less
> than 20seconds? If so is that really a huge delay?
>
Yes [it is less than 20 seconds] .. and no [it isn't a really huge delay] ..
If the quality was acceptable then the delay would be no problem.

I never watch livetv... ever... even f1 is watched a few minutes behind so i
> can start to watch it at my convenience and let myth do its job of
> scheduling rather than suddenly myth being asked to provide a tuner for
> livetv it wasnt expecting (and had allocated for a different recording)...
> tell myth what you want it to record and let it record... then watch the
> recorded programmes - even if they are inprogress recordings..
>
I'm coming around to that way of thinking too - although it is quite a
'culture change' from the way of watching that we've all grown up with. I
also still need to educate the OH to this way of thinking .. she is 'used
to' the sky gui and controls and so there is still a need to switch between
watching live TV direct from sky and watching recordings from myth. I am
working on it, but giving her the ability to watch recordings of channels
such as Animal Planet would definitely win me lots of brownie points :)

I have tried both s-video and scart breakout connections into the capture
card on my server but nothing has so far proved workable.. maybe I just need
some different hardware?

Thanks for the reply!
George
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