Homemade Sattelite PVR basics? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

leftwingx · 03-10-2006, 01:07 PM

I'm getting a new PC right away and I'll soon have an idle PC that I wanted to turn into a dedicated PVR. I was wondering if anyone had experience recording sattelite broadcasts via PC and if there were recommended brands or pieces of hardware that I should look into.

Thanks,

lwx

sailor · 03-11-2006, 06:37 PM

I'm not sure about a satellite PVR--you have to have a tuner card to make a PVR, and I've never seen a satellite tuner card for a computer. Not to say that one doesn't exist, but I've never seen one, and seeing how restrictive satellite TV companies tend to be with their tuners, I'd think they'd try their hardest to shut any down anyways.

cyrnel · 03-11-2006, 07:45 PM

It's generally done by remote to a normal sat receiver. I haven't seen a true PC tuner/receiver. Check out <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about.html">Freevo</a> and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures">MythTV</a>. Wish I had time to keep up with this stuff.

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leftwingx · 03-15-2006, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by cyrnel

It's generally done by remote to a normal sat receiver. I haven't seen a true PC tuner/receiver. Check out <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about.html">Freevo</a> and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures">MythTV</a>. Wish I had time to keep up with this stuff.

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Great links - thanks!

Embic · 03-15-2006, 01:58 PM

here is a write up of what my buddy did for his sat pvr
http://theaudleys.net/?page_id=17

leftwingx · 03-15-2006, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Embic

here is a write up of what my buddy did for his sat pvr
http://theaudleys.net/?page_id=17

Unfriggin' believable. I couldn't have asked for a better step-by-step guide. I have a StarChoice setup as well, so this is absolutely tailor made.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again!

03-10-2006, 01:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
leftwingx Upright Location: Calgary, AB	Homemade Sattelite PVR basics? I'm getting a new PC right away and I'll soon have an idle PC that I wanted to turn into a dedicated PVR. I was wondering if anyone had experience recording sattelite broadcasts via PC and if there were recommended brands or pieces of hardware that I should look into. Thanks, lwx

03-11-2006, 06:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	I'm not sure about a satellite PVR--you have to have a tuner card to make a PVR, and I've never seen a satellite tuner card for a computer. Not to say that one doesn't exist, but I've never seen one, and seeing how restrictive satellite TV companies tend to be with their tuners, I'd think they'd try their hardest to shut any down anyways. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

03-11-2006, 07:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	It's generally done by remote to a normal sat receiver. I haven't seen a true PC tuner/receiver. Check out <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about.html">Freevo</a> and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures">MythTV</a>. Wish I had time to keep up with this stuff. Edit:URL Whoops. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195 Last edited by cyrnel; 03-11-2006 at 07:55 PM..

03-15-2006, 01:58 PM	#5 (permalink)
Embic Insane Location: Canada	here is a write up of what my buddy did for his sat pvr http://theaudleys.net/?page_id=17