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bean said:I have been thinking about setting up a mythtv box and was wondering a few things....
1. is it possible to get all the channels just using a dvb-c card without a dbox?
2. if so is it easy to do
3. which dvb-c cards will work?
TIA for any help
Basically - the dbox2 isn't stable enough when it's sending streams over its network port.
nehemia said:For some reason the httpd daemon hangs, loading up the dbox's poor little CPU which makes it need a reboot.. not good when you're expecting it to be as solid as mythtv itself.
liamcrayden said:If thats the case then why not kill nhttpd whilst streaming/recording?
gerner said:Okay I've found a working solution using ggrab as a UDP stream recorder.
I don't know if any of you have tried using ggrab and had issues with it cacking out on certain channels (caused by a high or low audio bitrate).
A clever guy over on the sage PVR forums has fixed this bug and provided a plugin for sage to use the dbox as a network capture source. Basically does the same thing that myth does but it seems to work quite well - he's only released this bug fix last night so I haven't had a chance to try it:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15537
I use sage so this suits me fine. There's also the option to use gbpvr as well with their dbox plugin:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/DboxRecorder
If you want to use gbpvr make sure you replace the ggrab.exe file with the one posted on the sage forums.
Proviso: With the modifed ggrab udp streaming works now for all channels. However, using http to talk to the dbox still seems a little flaky - I'm sure it caused my dbox to crash last night. Currently investigating using a telnet interface instead.
nehemia said:And using GBPVR or SageTV isn't a solution for us mythtv users
gerner said:No, but it can be for more generalised pvr users willing to try new and different things
Mythtv's pretty good, but its not the be all and end all, particularly when it comes to integrating the dbox.
garysbootlegs said:Has anyone managed to get sagetv working? If so any chance of a step by step guide as it doesnt work for me with the settings from that site.
Make sure you have your
system configured to resolve the host name "dbox" to your dbox's IP
address..
Simply add a line like this:
192.168.0.202 dbox
to your c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
garysbootlegs said:Hi, i've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and still having the same problems.
When i first run grabrecorder it gets all the channels from the dbox but once i click to get the listings from the xmltv file i get errors in grabrecorder they are
"FAILED", "Client Disconnect", "Client Connect"
I get loads of "NOOP", "OK" messages too.
Anyone got any ideas?
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