As for HDTV capture - if you are not recording Over the air, you are kind of out of luck. Here in the states we have a law that forces the cable tv providers to turn on the firewire port on all boxes equipped with them. Well the cable companies are now ordering boxes without Firewire so they do not have to comply. I can with a A180 ATSC card tune the QAM signal for digital on the Cable TV line, but the channels move at their whim and you get only the ones they deem can be unencrypted, which is only OTA locals.
Recording HD from cable or satellite stinks right now until someone finally cracks the hdmi recording cards to use them in linux that are starting to hit the market at a price that is affordable ($350.00) Otherwise a Component encoding card that can do HD is ungodly expensive ($2500.00 and support for linux is iffy). The content providers and delivery people do not want you to record HD. They are doing everything they can to keep you from recording it. And the hdmi route will disappear when they turn on hdcp encryption on hdmi so that only blessed devices can unencrypt it. I personally gave up on the HD freevo/mythtv. It is a lost cause that will not be fixable in the near future. I record all SD channels and I know that in the USA that will not go away in the near future. Most people do not own a HD set nor are planning on buying one. And most channels are not planning on changing over to all HD any time soon either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
