Hi!
I'm looking to get into the idea of integrating HDTV into Myth.
Now's a good time to be thinking about it, since the broadcast flag outlaws US manufacture of HDTV tuner cards after July 1.
Currently, I have two PVR-250s, and might get another. I'd like to be able to combine the current pvr-250s while getting HDTV.
Can you give me a newbie's guide to the differences between the Air2PC, pcHDTV HD-3000, and other HDTV solutions that work with myth?
Those are the only two I'm aware of at this point (the HD-2000, pcHDTV's previous card, is no longer being produced).
I now have HD-2000, HD-3000, and Air2PC, all in service of EFF's anti-broadcast-flag campaign. My sense is that the HD-3000 is still easier because it's been around longer, so more people have worked out the bugs and steps in its install process. We're producing a "cookbook" around getting it working under KnoppMyth, whose next release is likely to include support for the HD-3000. Watch soon at <http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/cookbook/>.
Outside of KnoppMyth, the install process is still a bit clunky, and even with the latest drivers, the card still has fits when Myth starts up with it tuned to a non-working channel.
The DVB-based solution could be more flexible in the long run, but when I tested about two weeks ago, there was so much driver instability that it was tough to grab all the parts that work together. (Thanks Taylor and Angel for helping to work through that process.) Once the development trees settle down, as I understand is planned for the 2.6.11 kernel, it should be easier. Also, the Air2PC route doesn't yet have a way to get guide data, though I understand that's in the pipeline.
Myth CVS has made great progress in the last few weeks on tuning of ATSC, making it much easier to set the channel IDs and frequencies in the database.
If I get two cards, would my machines (and AMD XP 3200+) be able to handle two cards? I can't put up an external antenna, so would I have to have a seperate antenna for each card?
Or a splitter (which might need an amplifier).
Can you have to HDTV cards?
Yes, I've used both Air2PC and HD-3000. I think there are others on-list who have used multiple HD cards.
I'm a beginer at all of this, but I am pretty tech savvy and know some of the basics of HDTV, but very little about integrating it with Myth or any PVR for that matter.
Good luck. --Wendy -- -- Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Frontier Foundation Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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