2005-09-25, 03:14 AM
I must not be seeing the forest for the trees, but I can't find any information about running GB-PVR without a tuner card, using instead an S-Video-In connection on a tuner-less card. I have an HIS Radeon X800 card with Video-In and Video-Out, and can view and record TV from my satellite STB using the ATI Multimedia Center software. I was hoping to control the STB using an UIRT from *some* PVR software, but so far GB-PVR, MediaPortal, and Windows MCE all seem to be somewhat oblivious to this whole realm, certainly in terms of supported hardware.
I am puzzled by this disconnect between tuner-based approaches and STB-based approaches (and I am not talking about HDTV at all here) -- is there a reason for this tuner-centricity? If anyone could shed some light, primarily on this whole general topic, I would be much obliged.