On 11/13/2009 09:20 AM, David Hall wrote:
Gus: thanks for your quick reply.
I have a Hauppauge HVR2250 card. Mounted on a Gigabyte mobo with Intel
Q9550 CPU.
Right now, I'm in a "test bed" mode and am using an amplified over-the-air
antenna, which I'll bring.
It's good enough for a few local channels. Plan to migrate to our home
cable feed, later.
You will not be able to directly record cable TV except for the few
channels that you would already be able to receive over the air, unless
you have analog cable, which is unlikely. That is because all the
digital channels are encrypted and require a converter box or CableCARD
to decrypt the channels.
Haven't set up Schedules Direct--will Titan TV not work? TitanTV is free
and has schedule info.
TitanTV will not work unless someone has written a scraper for it. There
may be one available, I just don't know.
On this multiboot machine, I also have Windows 7 RC. The Hauppauge WinTV7
software works great with TitanTV as the schedule feed. Thought I would try
the "open source" alternative.
Is MythTV locked in to the Schedules Direct pay service?
It is not locked in. It is an extremely convenient feature for a very
reasonable price, $20/year. MythTV can read EIT data, various XML data
sources, and can be used worldwide. You can program it by hand if you want.
> Oh well, so much
> for open source.
You have some gross misconceptions about Open Source and Free (as in
Freedom) software. Schedules Direct is a service, just like your cable
TV or telephone service. It is not the software. MythTV the software is
mostly Free or Open Source (depending on the license), and you can do
pretty much what you want with it. There is no obligation to give you
the scheduling data for free just like the cable company doesn't give
you your cable service for free.
Gus
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