ome advice on USB-UIRT, UK Sky Digital.

[stu8080]

OK, i habe a great GB-PVR setup that just uses the Five UK terrestrial channels. Because i share a house i cant get sole use of the Sky Digital box we have unless it during work hours, early in the morning or late at night.

What i want to be able to do is to schedule regular recordings from Terrestrial (aerial) that might occur in the evenings (when others are watching Sky) but also schedule recordings from Sky during the day whilst others are at work etc.

I dont think i can have things both ways can i? i can either set 'internal tuner' and get terrestrial or use 'external tuner' and use the USB-UIRT?

Your views welcome!

[blader_se]

Quote[/b] (stu8080 @ Oct. 03 2004,14:11)]I dont think i can have things both ways can i?  i can either set 'internal tuner' and get terrestrial or use 'external tuner' and use the USB-UIRT?

Create two capture sources, one for terrestrial, internal tuner, and one for sky, (Fixed-Channel) external tuner.

[stu8080]

That would involve a Co-Ax input and an S-Video input to my PVR-350 i presume?

I hadnt thought of that, but had wanted to get everything through the Co-Axial as we have a signal booster that sends the sky signal throughout the house and my PVR isnt in the living room its in my bedroom (its dangerous in our living room at times!

I think i have a way round that though cos i was thinking of using a 'digisender' (2.4Ghz wireless A/V signal Trans/Reciever that also sends IR signal so you can control sky from different rooms) Its getting elaborate but id rather do that than stick my box in the front room.. think that would work?

[blader_se]

Quote[/b] (stu8080 @ Oct. 03 2004,16:39)]That would involve a Co-Ax input and an S-Video input to my PVR-350 i presume?

Not necessarily, I'm just using a singel Co-ax and let my two SAT's send on two different fixed frequencies, that's what 'Fixed-Channel' is about. (I also have a third source for terestrial.)

The downside is that the sat's RF-transmitter sends in mono, not even my stereo-VCR got a decent stereo RF-transmitter...

[stu8080]

Im not sure i know what you mean. For instance terrestrial each has its own channel number in the source 23, 29 33 etc, Sky is on channel 50. Do you mean that one source would be 'internal tuner' with different channel numbers for BBC1 - 33, BBC2 - 29 etc, and the other would be set at 50 regardless of the sky channel selected, but would still allow me to set the different channel numbers for the USB-UIRT to transmit? am i right?

[blader_se]

Quote[/b] (stu8080 @ Oct. 03 2004,17:00)]Do you mean that one source would be 'internal tuner' with different channel numbers for BBC1 - 33, BBC2 - 29 etc, and the other would be set at 50 regardless of the sky channel selected, but would still allow me to set the different channel numbers for the USB-UIRT to transmit? am i right?

Yeap, you set the channel number (50) in the dialog box where you set the source to be Fixed-Channel, external tuner. You then enter the channel numbers you want USB-UIRT to send in the list below.

For terrestrial you set it to internal tuner, and enter the channel number you want the tuner to tune to (as you probably already have).

Under the last tab, channel numbers, you set what channel number you would like to type on your remote.

Credits to sub who thought about all these different setups!

[joshley]

Can I use S-Video in on my 350 AND RF in from an areal and record something via RF whilst watching something else on Sky via S-Video...?

[stu8080]

Suberb! indeed all credit to sub, this programme keeps on surprising me

Thanks guys, i had a play and just have to wait till i get my USB-UIRT through to try it proper.

[krypton_john]

Quote[/b] (joshley @ Oct. 04 2004,15:35)]Can I use S-Video in on my 350 AND RF in from an areal and record something via RF whilst watching something else on Sky via S-Video...?

Nah. It's only got one tuner, one encoder and one decoder onboard. It can switch between inputs, one at a time.

Now if you had a WinTV PVR-500....

[joshley]

haha, if only! Or a PVR-700 with dual tuners AND dual decoders.....

If I bought another DVB-T pci card and set it up as a seperate recording source, how, when I select to record a program, would I tell GB-PVR which one to record from?