HD Cable Boxes and HDMI

[Ritmo2k]

Looking through the wiki, I can not seem to really find anything about hdmi capture cards so I may stream our cable boxes.
Is this possible, any pointers to some docs would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

[tkmedia]

Currently there are  no hdmi capture devices.

The closest thing is the HDPVR with composite in.

I have on and will be trying to get it to work with the 0810 release.



Tim

[Ritmo2k]

"Trying..."
Ouch, so it doesn't work with the current release I gather.
Composite would be fine, I will post back later to see how you have made out.

In the meantime I will assume it needs to be hooked up to the tuner at the tv. It has an ethernet port, hopefully it can be controlled via a template.

Thanks!

[tkmedia]

The intention once this is working to make it pnp with its own template... Others are successfully using it with mythtv ( driver is very new)
So it will work just of matter when.




Tim

[digilifellc]

I doubt this works with IVTV, but it's worth the investigation: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/

Makes for a very neat installation and unencumbered means of capturing your HD cable/HD satellite tuner. Some others are talking about this card's possibilities, but there are a number of obstacles that must be overcome first: http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/general/5271-hdmi-capture.html

One step is that ALSA now supports HDMI passthrough in Linux: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2009/01/23/linux-gets-hdmi-sound-pass-through-support-via-alsa-and-kernel-2627-x/

Now all we need is a dependable driver for this card in Linux, stable compatibility with IVTV, and a general defeat of HDCP that governs its playback, and we're set! Hopefully we'll get a breakthrough soon...