[olug] MythTV - Cox Communications

[Kenny Kant]

Nick, is this the DVR from Cox?  I am really interested to see if anyone 
out there has been able to really control the cable box / dvr ..using 
this port.

Nick wrote:
> 've saved video to a file on a pc using the firewire port on a Motorola
> DVR.   On Windows, (sorry) it was a matter of installing a firewire
> driver and a program which wrote the stream to a file. 
>
> Nick
>
> Kenny Kant wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps this has been discussed before but I wanted to ask you all 
>> question in regard to using MythTV with Cox.  In my past installation I 
>> have gotten along great using variants of the Haupauge Tuner cards for 
>> standard definition viewing.  Now that we have a HDTV setup I want to 
>> build a Myth system to play well in this world.  I understand that I can 
>> get unencrypted QAM stuff off the wire  ...etc   and I also understand 
>> about the over-the-air ATSC stuff.  I am curious as to how I would get 
>> premium HD channels from Cox if I wanted them.  I understand my options 
>> to be the following:
>>
>> - Give up on Myth and purchase a pre-built Media PC and utilize Cox 
>> Cable card technology.
>>
>> - Get the Cox Cable box and utilize the HDMI output or similar to pipe 
>> HD signal into my Myth backend system.  I would then need to control the 
>> Cox box via serial and or an IR-Blaster.
>>
>> - Get the Cox Cable box which has firewire output and utilize this to 
>> pull MPEG2 ..etc straight into Myth.
>>
>> I am really curious as to if the Firewire option is possible.  Do any of 
>> you have Tuners from Cox that actually have this installed?  I have a 
>> friend of mine who claims that it is Federal Law that mandates cable 
>> co's to provide this as an option.  I currently have an email into Cox 
>> asking about this but thought I would check on opinions here.  Am I 
>> missing other BETTER options?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kenny
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