On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 00:46 -0400, Jim Trudell wrote: > Thanks for that link. It seems theres no magic, its the exact way i thought > it would be, in which case, i'm going to have to move on to another > solution. I'd like to be able to record and watch or do PIP with this > solution and for that, i'd need dual boxes and a bunch of workarounds. > Thanks again
No workarounds required, but yes you will need multiple tuner boxes. This is required no matter how you implement, unless you get a box specifically from DirecTV that's designed for PIP. Even then you can't integrate that with MythTV and use Myth's PIP. I've got a DirecTV setup that I pretty much use the way you want to use it. I have a backend with 2 tuner cards (PVR250's) and two external DirecTV boxes connected to the two serial interfaces on my machine. Myth then controls these boxes through serial connections therefore changing channels without all that mucking about with LIRC. My backend is currently the same box as my frontend, but that may change in the future (planning to move my backend and DTV boxes into the basement). I can do two recordings at once, watch and record or do PIP and I have no problems whatsoever. I can also attach MythTV as a frontend from my main PC in my study (which I'm writing this email on) and happily watch live TV, recordings or videos and not affect my kids watching their cartoons downstairs. Now, if I try to do an apt-get dist-upgrade on the main backend that might be a different story <grin> Basically, I think Myth works better than any other solutions out there, with some caveats. Note that if you get a box from DirecTV that supports PIP and so forth (I think some of the series 2 DirecTivo do that), it's actually two tuners in the box with two cables coming off your satellite dish. Not a pretty setup, and certainly no worse than what I've got. Once I get all the cables run to the basement I'll have a REALLY clean entertainment center with just the hard-drive-less frontend in it. Gavin
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