[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime - Preorders official on newegg

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> On 5/15/2011 19:27, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> >>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ronald Frazier<ron at ronfrazier.net>
>>  wrote:
>> >>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>>  wrote:
>> >>>>>    But if you're not going to use a cablecard, it would be far
>> cheaper
>> >>>>> just get multiple of the two tuner units.  There's no real point
>> running
>> >>>>> it in basic mode.
>> >>>> Sure there is, but mostly it's the same advantage that would persuade
>> >>>> one to get the 6 tuner instead of two 3-tuners: you prefer the
>> >>>> integrated form factor and reduced wiring. Not worth it to me, but
>> for
>> >>>> some people I guess it is.
>> >>> I thought the 6 tuner model would be able to use all 6 tuners with one
>> >>> cablecard?
>> >>
>> >> No.  The 6-tuner model is nothing more than the circuit boards strapped
>> >> into a single case, with a shared power supply.
>> >>
>> >>> still, when will MythTV support it? will it work with the current HDHR
>> option?
>> >>
>> >> MythTV will see it as three independent tuners, on each of two devices
>> >> on two separate IPs.
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>> > The six-tuner model was always advertised to use two CCs.  Think of it
>> > as 2x three-tuners because it literally is 2x three-tuners in one
>> > enclosure as I mentioned earlier.
>> >
>> > It is already supported in MythTV as of .24.
>> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun_Prime
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>> ahhh, awesome. pre-ordered it then!
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> So, what codec / wrapper / etc will the recorded shows be in? I assume they
> won't be H.264? Will they be the same as my current HDHR recordings from QAM
> - What is that, MPEG-2? If so, that will be nice since my iMac FE can't
> handle H.264 but it does ok with my HDHR recordings.
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The PRIME does not encode anything.  The PRIME is responsible for the
following:

1) Verify you have access to channel.
2) Tune the channel.
3) Decrypt that channel stream via the CableCard.
4) If stream is marked copy-once:
   a) If requesting software is CableLabs certified, re-encrypt stream.
   b) Otherwise, go no further.  The stream is inaccessible.
4) Pass unaltered stream (encrypted or not) to the requesting software.

As you can see, at no point is the encoding anything.  The video stream is
unaltered from what was sent by the cable co.

The question really is: In what codec / wrapper / etc will the cable co send
the shows?
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