Hauppauge HD PVR (4 Viewers)

[garry]

Yea, this device looks to be the best method for north american users to legally watch HD cable/satellite TV in MP.

 

[Wonderm00n]

Yea, this device looks to be the best method for north american users to legally watch HD cable/satellite TV in MP.

Why only "north american users"?

I'm from Portugal and I cant' watch HD cable on anything else than my SetupBox because the card is "locked" to it... This device would be GREAT for me if MP supported it!

 

[garry]

I didn't say "only north american users".

 

[Khidr]

I'll throw my support in for hoping the MP team come out with some basic support. I'm more than happy to use a generic usbirt or firewire to change channels

 

[BKCH]

Hi Guys,

I have a couple of questions about this:

1. Do we think that using component input and this HD PVR capture would yeild significantly better quality than S-video based catpure on a PVC-250??

2. What would we need to do to get this supported in MP???

I'm willing to contribute towards buying one of these for a developer if that would help (or put some money towards a further donation for MP).

Thanks

 

[Khidr]

Hey BKCH - Using this in BTV and Gb PVR I can say that the results are absolutely stellar. It's essentially a 720p feed, so it's hands down the best quality you're going to get from an analogue source.

As far as I'm concerned, the key is to allow a simple setup for an external set top boxes. As it is now, it's an ordeal to set it up for s-video or anything else (from what I understand you have to go through each individual channel and set it up, which, if you have say comcast digital premium, is over 300 channels!)

Instead, under sources: antenna, cable, external stb would be fantastic.

Beyond that, since MP doesn't actually have to do any of the tuning (it can call to an IR, or .exe channel change plugin), I don't think it would take that much.

But then again, I might be missing something.

 

[garry]

I'm willing to contribute towards buying one of these for a developer if that would help (or put some money towards a further donation for MP).

Thanks

Me too, I'll gladly contribute towards getting one in the hands of a developer to help get this thing supported.

 

[garry]

This guy has a .NET app (and source code) for capture to disk from the hd-pvr :

ARogan: Hauppauge HD PVR (model 1212)

I wonder if any of it would help provide a path to getting support in MP for the hd-pvr.

 

[BKCH]

*BUMP*

OK - so I'm dying for better quality football!!!! So.. I'll up the offer - I'm happy to donate a HD PVR to development and a $50 thank you to the guy who makes it work (Anyone else what to kick in money??)

(I wish I could make it work myself but I don't know what's invovled in getting a card to work in MP - is there some documentation I can read somewhere to take a stab at this myslef???)

 

[Cerbera79]

I'm in for $50.00. I just got one of these and I'd kill to have it play nice with mediaportal.