[olug] MythTV and firewire control of Cox digital cable tuner

[Mr Scsi]

kino? dvgrab? thats how I get to my dv camcorder via firewire.



On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Now I'm curious as to whether or not you can feed that FireWire out to
> some other stream recorder (e.g. configure another "tuner" in Myth)
> and record directly from the box.  Any *nix software that can record
> directly from FireWire?
>
> Ben
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org>
> wrote:
> > Will Langford wrote:
> >>> From reading the Motorola manual for the DCH3416 (my decoder box), it
> touts
> >>> the FireWire and HDMI as being the two preferred digital HD ports for
> >>> connecting a TV.
> >>>
> >>> I walked through the cable box on-screen setup menus but couldn't find
> >>> anything referring to FireWire/1394 (but I'm sleepy and could have
> missed
> >>> it).
> >>>
> >>> Tomorrow I'll call Cox and open a ticket, and tomorrow night I'll play
> with
> >>> the MythTV side to see if it can see anything on the other side of the
> >>> cable.
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Just a quick side note.  If it does spit out data via firewire, I
> believe
> >> it's still in an encrypted Transport Stream 'file' (since Cox encrypts
> >> everything, I imagine they'd tell the box to encrypt the out going
> firewire
> >> as well).  Not too useful without something to decode it... which
> doesn't
> >> exist afaik.
> >>
> >> Secondly, yes, you might be able to at least change channels with it.
>  Do
> >> you really wanna blow $30 on a firewire cable just to have faster
> channel
> >> change times as compared to an IR blaster ?.  And be severely limited in
> >> cable length?
> >>
> >
> > I have used the firewire port many times before - It is a straight MPEG2
> > stream (no encryption)
> >
> > If you couple this input and a little IR trickery for channel changing,
> > you can litterally use the cable box as a tuner card.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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