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Set up your own PVR

  • 22-10-2006 03:25PM
    #1
    derby7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭


    Dont bother to get Sky+ .....yet (wait for it to get cheaper !) In the meantime : Why not set up your own PVR (personal video recorder). Buy a TV card for your PC (€50), connect up the Sky box (via RF1 out or similar) to it, connect up the 'stereo out' from the Sky box to the PC card's 'line-in', and hey presto - you've got your own personal recorder. There is also 'free' software out there to schedule recordings. All this takes a little setting up, but sure that makes it more interesting..... then try to do it on a 'free' Linux system, eg. on Ubuntu, and use the great MythTV (pause/rewind LiveTV).... ;)


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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    but how do you record one encrypted channel while watching another?


  • #3
    derby7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭derby7


    Avent tried that yet, not sure if that can be done, hense the advantage of Sky+, but something can be done with say a dual TV card, eg. Hauppauge 500, u wud also need 2 Sky boxes i'd say. Programs like MythTV (for Linux) are very powerful, & FREE. Note: i've just started to try & set up MythTV myself.........its interesting to say the least. :rolleyes:


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,460 ✭✭✭✭watty


    derby7 wrote:
    Dont bother to get Sky+ .....yet (wait for it to get cheaper !) In the meantime : Why not set up your own PVR (personal video recorder). Buy a TV card for your PC (€50), connect up the Sky box (via RF1 out or similar) to it, connect up the 'stereo out' from the Sky box to the PC card's 'line-in', and hey presto - you've got your own personal recorder. There is also 'free' software out there to schedule recordings. All this takes a little setting up, but sure that makes it more interesting..... then try to do it on a 'free' Linux system, eg. on Ubuntu, and use the great MythTV (pause/rewind LiveTV).... ;)

    And the quality is terrible, the usability is terribel and you need a mirror sub and two Sky boxes to watch one pay channel while recording an other.

    The only worthwhile thing for PVR for FTA is two Skystar2 type cards, and record in one application while you watch another, but no pay channels. (Just set one up this evening with ProgDVB and 400G of storage).

    A consumer DVD/HDD recorder with analog in is far superior (and cheaper) to Media Centre or Myth TV if you are using analog in and a Sky box anyway.


  • #5
    mossym
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭mossym


    i wouldn't say far superior if you know what you are doing. They maybe easier to setup, but apart from that they offer few advantages over a HTPC running a pvr application

    oh and derby, people have been sdoing what you suggested for ages..we even have a forum for it

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=643


  • #6
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    derby7 wrote:
    Avent tried that yet, not sure if that can be done, hense the advantage of Sky+, but something can be done with say a dual TV card, eg. Hauppauge 500, u wud also need 2 Sky boxes i'd say

    your method is not very cheap then is it


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  • #7
    derby7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭derby7


    Hey, steady on, dont shoot da messenger, i was just tryin to point out that for €50 you can get a TV card, stick it in you're PC & you can record to da PC & even back it up on a DVD. The software i got with the card lets me record in DVD, SVCD, MPEG2 & 4 quality, etc. I wasn't trying to replace/out-do Sky & their monopoly.....;)


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