[mythtvnz] Re: TV tuner cards - low cost recommendations?

[Steve Hodge]

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On 3/5/07, nick@rout.co.nz <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
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> I have a non-myth box that I put my SkyStar 2 in, just to play around. I
> can record two channels at once, its easy:
>
> dvbstream -f 1371 -s 22500 -p h  -o 1004 1104  1005 1105 >
> /mnt/hda5/dvb/one_two.ts
>
> You can add and subtract PIDS from the stream at will. I haven't tried to
> see how many pids it will do before the disk bandwidth craps out. It's all
> very manual though.


You can grab the whole stream by using the "magic" pid 8192. I didn't notice
a problem with disk bandwidth when I tried this breifly.

Cheers,
Steve

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On 3/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:nick@rout.co.nz">nick@rout.co.nz</a></b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nick@rout.co.nz">nick@rout.co.nz</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a non-myth box that I put my SkyStar 2 in, just to play around. I<br>can record two channels at once, its easy:<br><br>dvbstream -f 1371 -s 22500 -p h&nbsp;&nbsp;-o 1004 1104&nbsp;&nbsp;1005 1105 &gt;<br>/mnt/hda5/dvb/one_two.ts<br><br>
You can add and subtract PIDS from the stream at will. I haven&#39;t tried to<br>see how many pids it will do before the disk bandwidth craps out. It&#39;s all<br>very manual though.</blockquote><div><br>You can grab the whole stream by using the &quot;magic&quot; pid 8192. I didn&#39;t notice a problem with disk bandwidth when I tried this breifly.
<br></div><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div><br>

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