Another Linux-Friendly alternative ATSC dual-tuner
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 05, 2007 12:02 AM
Another product in this category is the HDHomeRun external *ethernet* connected device. It has dual ATSC (HD) anntenna inputs and tuners, and outputs the channel streams over ethernet (TCP or UDP). Saving a program to disk is as simple as using netcat (or socat) to dump the stream to a file.
Myth (0.20) and mplayer work very well with it, and no kernel drivers are required to support the device since it's just a network device.
Reception is much better than the tuner built into my "real" HD TV set, but it would be interesting to see a comparism with other PC tuners such as the HD-5500.
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Another Linux-Friendly alternative ATSC dual-tuner
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 05, 2007 12:02 AMMyth (0.20) and mplayer work very well with it, and no kernel drivers are required to support the device since it's just a network device.
Reception is much better than the tuner built into my "real" HD TV set, but it would be interesting to see a comparism with other PC tuners such as the HD-5500.
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