At least around here, digital and analog are the same wire.
The digital signal rides "on top of" the analog signal (for lack of a better term for it). We only get the digital channels at sets that have a digital set-top box; we get analog cable at the other sets.
From browsing around [link|http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html|here], it sounds like the issue is having an appropriate connection from the PC to the set-top box. Thus, one would select the appropriate channel with the IR remote controlled by the PC, the analog signal from the cable-box would to to the MPEG-2 card, the PC would do its magic and display the result on the TV (from a video card with TV out). Similarly with a satellite-box, etc.
I'm thinking that a PVR-350 card would be a better choice than the 250 as it has the MPEG-2 decoder. Is that not necessary? I see mention of nVidia (especially GeForce4 mx440) cards a lot. Is that the best choice for MythTV as far as the drivers go? Do you have 2 capture cards?
What hardware are you using?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who several times has thought about moving this to Hardware or somewhere else, but figured it would be best to keep it in one place.)
