On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:43, Roh . wrote: > ..just to clarify my point from last night...... > > >On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 08:37, Roh . wrote: > > > >What type of hardware do I need to be able to set up a freevo box with > > > >digital cable? > > > > > > > how about a digital tuner card? just the same as analogue but its > >digital!! > > > > > > >Uh... digital cable isn't based on a standard like broadcast cable. > >There aren't tuner cards for it. > > > k, now if you had googled for "digital TV tuner cards" the top 2 hits > would've been: > http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm - which lists 2 digi tuners > available for the US. > http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=189119 - which talks about > using the visionplus digi tuner card in Australia. > They work the same as analogue tuners, except they recieve HD digital TV > signals. you do not need an external decoder box, if, sadly, the US govt. > have not forced a standard between broadcasters then i feel sorry for you. > Here in Australia, and most other countries, HDTV is standardised, and we > plan on turning off our analogue transmissioin in 2008. >
Digital cable is not the same standard as HDTV. > > > >I'm assuming that the IR ports that most motherboards have aren't the > > > >same form of IR that remotes use, so I wouldn't be able to just get the > > > >IR expansion for the motherboard. > > > > > > > no, they are IrDa ports. again - look at LIRC docs and learn something, > >you > > > can use irda ports but RTFM! > > > > > > >Would be really nice to record things without commercials in addition > >to > > > >the shows I like to watch :) > > > > > > > >--StormeRider > > > > > > if that pleases you then go for it - google HOW-TO's and set it up. > > > personaly why bother when mplayer can skip 10 secs, 1 minute or ten > >minutes > > > -that way adverts fly-by! > > > > > > >I meant that the channels that play movies without commercials are the > >ones I can't access off the basic cable via the tuner card. To get the > >higher channels, ala HBO/Cinemax/etc, I need to be able to tune the > >digital cable box. > > > um, so are you saying your using an analogue tuner card now, and can only > recieve the analogue signals, and need to use your external digi tuner box > to tune digi signals? > if so then i would expect nothing more unless you had a digi tuner card, > makes sense dosnt it? > The word digital is misleading. The basic cable is an analogue signal. The digital cable is digital to the cable box, which then runs analogue (NTSC) to the TV. If I connect the freevo box to the cable box, then I will be able to receive my channels fine with the WinTV tuner card (tuning on ch 3, I believe, just like a VCR or a DVD player). I won't be able to tune the channels at that point, though... not without using IR. "Digital" service is more about how the service gets to you than what you actually receive on the TV (unlike HDTV). Using the digital cable, I can order a PPV movie using the on screen guide without having to call and have them enable it. It's a little more tolerant of signal noise, too, compared to analogue cable. Quality, as far as I can otherwise tell, is the same. > my point was that you were basically wasting peoples time (and bandwidth) > asking questions not related to freevo, that you couldve answered yourself > with a little searching around the net. Once you do have a question to with > your freevo box, myself and many others would be more than happy to help. > > >Why is it that people have to assume that people asking for answers are > >lazy and not that they haven't been able to find the answer? > > > i dont always assume that, but when the questions are off-topic to freevo, > and can be easily found on the net, id say yes, lazy. > > >Running the risk of getting flamed for asking a simple question after > >spending time googling and searching through the mailing list archives > >(which is plenty painful via sourceforge) is why mailing lists like this > >ARE a last resort. > > > i would presume that common sense would prevail and you'd use this list for > questions to do with freevo. and i dont see how you couldve googled or > searched the lists without finding your answers. > I would submit that trying to actually be able to use more than a few (73, a few duplicated at that, and others in Spanish) channels via freevo, is a freevo question. Otherwise there wouldn't be a FAQ entry about how to do it... one that left me wondering about IR hardware to use with freevo... which is exactly what I asked about. Maybe I wasn't 100% clear, because I already read the FAQ entry, and was looking for more detailed information than was mentioned there. I also assumed (bad idea) that others on the list would have done so already and understand in context what I was trying to accomplish, and why it would be necessary. Once I get it working I'll update the FAQ entry with more suggestion so you can just tell the next guy RTFFAQ, and it'll all be there. --Nathan -- Nathan P. Clemons, Sun Microsystems CSA (2.6) (Yahoo) StormeRidr (AIM) StormeRidr ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
