[mythtvnz] With a Skystar2 card is a Hauppauge PVR (or similar) card still necessary?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 6:32 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 4:20 pm, Matt Poff wrote:
>> About to kit my system with tuners and have some confusion about the
>> capabilities of the Skystar 2 card against the PVR cards. I've more or
>> less decided to go the DVB-S route but would like the system to be
>> capable of time-shifted recording. Is one Skystar all I need? If I wan=
t
>> to capture additional simultaneous broadcasts available via DVB-S I ne=
ed
>> an additional Skystar for each right? At least until multiplexing is
>> supported in MythTV.
>>
>> This considered is there any use/advantage in having a PVR card as wel=
l
>> other than for capture of channels not available via satellite.
>
> you only need the pvr card if you want to capture (watch or record)
> terrestrial analogue TV.The PVR encodes (in hardware) the analogue sign=
al
> to mpeg2 format and puts it on the hard drive.
>
> The Skystar 2 will allow you to watch and record unencrypted channels o=
ff
> any satellite your dish can receive. They are received off the satellit=
e
> in mpeg2 format, so in that case myth is just dumping it to the hard
> drive.
>
> You need one skystar per viewing or recording. i.e if you want to be ab=
le
> to record two channels simultaneously you need 2 skystars. Watching in
> mythtv is the equivalent of recording anyway (the channel is
> simultaneously recorded and played back.)
>
> The inability to record more than one programme off dvb is in fact a ma=
jor
> fault of mythtv at present, other software can record two or more chann=
els
> at once. Notably webscheduler (windows). I am not sure whether VDR (lin=
ux)
> can do so. I intend to find out.
>

For the record, vdr does have this ability

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
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