Robert La Ferla wrote:
John Friesen wrote:
Basically, at this point I don't have HDTV (signal or TV), and am wondering if I can use one of these as my only tuner, or if I need a specifically SDTV tuner as well.Yes. The HD3000 supports standard NTSC in addition to HDTV ATSC. I use it with tvtime for such but I still can't get it to work with MythTV. That may change for the better with kernel 2.6.12 in the next month. Also, with standard NTSC, the cx88 driver doesn't yet support digital audio capture nor closed captioning. I sincerely hope the driver developers figure out how to implement these soon.
I also have an HD-3000 and can concur. Works just fine with tvtime. I _have_ had limited success with MythTV in NTSC mode; however I've been unable to switch back & forth between the two modes. If I start in NTSC mode, it (usually) works OK in that mode, but if I switch tuners (with "Y"), I get the blank screen and "waiting too long" errors from the frontend. If I start in ATSC mode, it (sometimes) works OK (usually OK for recording, not so hot for "Watch TV") in that mode, but I can't switch back to NTSC.
BTW, I (naively) thought when I first purchased the HD-3000 card that it must have 2 tuners - one ATSC, one NTSC, and I was hoping that I could use them both simultaneously (PIP or record HD, watch SD). It doesn't. You can use it in ATSC or NTSC mode, but either/or, not both. Also, I hadn't heard of any plans to do digital audio capture on the NTSC side. I'm not sure it's possible, since there's no hardware MPEG-2 encoder on the NTSC side (actually, there isn't one period, it's just that ATSC is already MPEG-2 encoded by the broadcaster).
I'd be curious if anyone else has had success, and if so, with which drivers and which MythTV version.
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