[olug] HDTV capture cards...

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:54:30 -0600, Eli Criffield <olug at criffield.net> wrote:
> It doesn't do any of that, I haven't looked into hacking it, It has ports
> all over it for god knows what, (DVI, ethernet, USB, firewire, IR,
> SmartCard, Fiber Optic, others i can't remember)  so I'm betting someone
> has hacked it to extract the video.
> 
> but it can record digital channels, which is possible with myth, i got
> myth to send an IR signal from a thing i soldered together to a digital cox
> box, but it was a huge pain in the ass and wasn't very reliable it would
> get the channel wrong all the time, and was very slow to change channels
> that way.

There are many more reliable alternatives in home automation that
would not have to be soldered together and would provide much in the
way of dual use such as automatically recording the output of an
outside surveillance camera to mythtv.