[mythtv-users] Can I use a Ceton InfiniTV device on a Windows 7 box?

[Frank Feuerbacher]

On 13-01-09 05:43 PM, David Engel wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:13:12PM -0600, Frank Feuerbacher wrote:
>> Continuing saga of trying to use InfiniTV card installed on Windows
>> from an Ubuntu 12.10 box....
>>
>> On 1/7/2013 2:51 PM, Kris Jensen wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Yes bridging works well. I have two Ceton cards. One card set
>>> local only and one in bridged mode that I use with testing on
>>> WinOS DVR apps over the network. It took me a month or two of
>>> reading and trial and error before my MythTV system was stable
>>> enough to be called functional. And it has remained this way for
>>> the passed 10+ months. I had fun learning every step of the way.
>>>
>>> The only tips that I think that would help are:
>>>
>>> You NEED your signal strength a SNR at acceptable levels to avoid
>>> recording and live TV errors. All thought MythTV handles signal
>>> errors very well.
>>>
>>> When bridging the Ceton card you need to slow down and or
>>> rearrange the boot process a bit to allow the card to obtain an IP
>>> address before MythTVbackend starts.
>>>
>>> Hope that's helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I successfully bridged my InfiniTV card with a static IP.
>> I can use mplayer on Ubuntu to play from an rtsp URL for the
>> InfiniTV. Great, Basic communication works.
>> I used setup-mythtv to define the capture card as a Ceton InfiniTV
>> and with the static IP address I used with mplayer and with viewing
>> the card status in a browser. But, alas, mythtv does not appear to
>> work with it. It fails during the back-end startup.
>>
>> Should I have defined the device as a Ceton InfiniTV card to mythTV?
>> Perhaps it assumes it is a local card and does not use the correct
>> protocol to communicate with it? Also, does anyone know where the
>> remote protocol is defined? I have seen snippets about what URL to
>> use to change channels, to view a channel, etc. but I have not seen
>> a complete list. Perhaps it is a standard?
>>
>> I'm hoping to understand this well enough to be able to improve on
>> the wiki for the InfiniTV.
> Did you set the "Card number" to "RTP"?  If that's not done, I believe
> mythtv tries to use the /dev entries for some operations.
>
> David
Doh!

My wimpy defence is that I had a lot of trouble with mythtv-setup. It 
would not run in it's xterm, so I had a funky full screen version of it.

Thanks. I'll try using it tomorrow. My tuner is busy with a date with 
Loretta Young.