[ivtv-users] which PCI or USB digital tuner to use?

[Robert Harris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Ross" <tross.technical at starband.net>
To: "User discussion about IVTV" <ivtv-users at ivtvdriver.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] which PCI or USB digital tuner to use?


> faginbagin wrote:
> ...
>> The HDHomeRun won't use your internet bandwidth, but it does require
>> that you have a local area network in your home. IOW, you need either
>> a router with a spare port or a second NIC in your computer (and
>> perhaps a crossover cable) to support the HDHomeRun.
>
> Thank you for that clarification, yet I don't understand how ivtv will tap
> into that network stream. I'm using ivtv as a Linux tool to feed the
> PVR-500MCE inputs to such things as mplayer and mythtv from a VHS S-Video 
> or
> Composite input, probaly very primitive usage by most of all y'all's
> standards (look at me talk Southern!).
>
> I'm hoping to acquire an ATSC digital capture device to record the PBS
> station that is indicated in the footprint of the FCC maps here. I'm
> deducing from the replies that ivtv won't be necessary for that, as 
> mythtv,
> which I intend to use as the recording scheduler for such things as the 
> NOVA
> programs, might be entirely sufficient for the capture from a USB digital
> ATSC receiver.
The HDHomerun doesn't require or use nor is it associated with ivtv it is a 
different set of
tuners present on the local network accessable via either mythtv and vlc 
(possibly even mplayer not sure
but further discussion would not be possible in this list)
                                                                             
                 --Robert
>
> Thanks everybody for your sharing of your knowledge. I enjoy reading this
> (for me, recent) forum as an ongoing education.
>
>
>
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