[Novalug] Available MythTV system

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Mon Jun 8 16:45:28 EDT 2015


I have the Ceton working and have made it work too many times to count.

THAT said, I expect w/ Comcast you will be able to record some stuff.
My recollect is recording is FINE and playback. Things get weird on
moving or it a pay channel iirc. I don't recall how they do it, but
there is a flag for copy and playback on same machine.

Or maybe I am misremembering


On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Derek LaHousse via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> Well, there's a couple ways this can go:
>
> Someone who has a PCIe slot available in a system already equipped
> with disks near a co-ax outlet may only want the capture card.  The
> cost of Electricity is such that you don't want an entire computer.
> On the other hand, it is a convenient, if large, box on wheels.  I
> don't remember it being terribly loud, though as an IT person, the
> whirring of fans isn't the most annoying sound in the world.
> So, I'm giving away the computer to someone who wants the capture card.
>
> What's it got in the box:
> - I think a 250 GB disk?
> - An 802.11n card supported by linux
> - Onboard(?) VGA output - no blobs needed anyway
>
> So what does this system require:
> - Your own operating system - I expect I'll wipe the disk before
> sending the system on.  It's just good hygiene, right?
> - Near a coaxial connector - f-type input to the capture card
> - Screen with VGA
> - CableCard - Verizon's been renting this to me at $4 a month.  There
> is no option to buy one.  M-card
>
> And what can you do with it:
> - Watch TV with picture in picture
> - Record Shows, auto-detect commercials, transcode to remove the
> commercials, and let them sit on your disk for years at a time
> - Rip Movies and music, so I hear and have in no way done in a way
> that breaks perhaps overly broad laws
> - Connect to the database with another frontend elsewhere in your
> house and watch shows there, even though it's nowhere near a coax
> connection
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:44 PM, pereira via Novalug
> <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>> Derek,
>>
>> please keep your capture system together as a unit so that it's
>> more useful than the card alone.
>>
>> Nino
>>
>>
>> On 06/08/2015 01:26 PM, Derek LaHousse via Novalug wrote:
>>>
>>> LUGgers:
>>>
>>> Soon, it appears I will be trading Verizon for Comcast.  Since I've
>>> heard Verizon is one of the last to NOT set the Copy-Protect on media,
>>> I may soon have a useless Capture Card (Ceton InfiniTV 4-tuner PCIe).
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Ceton-InfiniTV-PCIe-4-channel-CableCARD/dp/B003B4VLJQ
>>>
>>> The Computer was provided by Nino, thanks Nino.  Assuming he doesn't
>>> want it back, is anyone interested in buying all the needed hardware
>>> to run MythTV?
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