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Building your own Analogue/Digital PVR

rogue-entity · 2006-02-28 01:31:25

I am looking to build a PVR for Analogue Cable/Terrestrial TV. I will probably just use my old PC to do this using MythTV. The problem with mythTV though is that it does everything in software so it would be better for me to get a hardware MPEG encoder board to speed up compression and reduce the strain on the CPU.…

28-02-2006 1:31am

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I am looking to build a PVR for Analogue Cable/Terrestrial TV. I will probably just use my old PC to do this using MythTV. The problem with mythTV though is that it does everything in software so it would be better for me to get a hardware MPEG encoder board to speed up compression and reduce the strain on the CPU. Playback of MPEG video at 800x600 does not seem to be too taxing though.

If you used a DTT tuner card for sattelite or terrestrial broadcasts, is it possible to save the raw compressed datastream directly to disk without decoding it first, so that the unit just needs to decompress the video on playback (not very intensive) making it easier to record one program, watch another or do live TV without needing a powerful processor.

A dreambox does not seem to support analogue, but it does support digital Cable and Sattelite. So it is likly that I can get one of these to tune not only FTA Sattelite but also the subscription cable channels using a legit subscription card and a NagraCAM.

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