[Sussex] MythTV with DVB-S and HD

[Alex Harrington]

Heya

> Just wondering if any of you MythTV users out there had tried 
> direct DVB-S capture, particularly with HD channels? I'm 
> thinking of ditching my PVR-350/Skybox combo and doing direct 
> capture from freesat instead.
> Anyone got anything similar working, and if so, what hardware 
> are you using?

Yes - we have a freesat setup going in to two Nova DVB-S cards. The box
is a dual Xeon with TBs of hard disc space, but that's got more to do
with the number of clients than the DVB-S.

We can record the HD channels, but they don't stream well (too much
data) across 100Mb LAN. Downloading the video first though gives a
really nice picture.

Cheers

Alex

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Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager
Longhill High School
t: 01273 391672 e: alex at longhill.org.uk