Tvheadend

if this device is supported as a DVB device under linux then tvheadend will support it.
Reading up a bit about this device shows that it is not a DVB device, but an analog to digital video conversion device with an mpeg out put.

What would you like to do with this device that can not be done with a simple dvb card?

Hein

Thanks Hein. The reason I bought this is that it enables recording in HDfrom my digital cable STB. In the US the carriers encrypt the signal out of the digital ports. So this box gets the signal from the component ports & encodes to h264/mpeg4 & AAC audio.

So this is really just for satellite systems?

Atsc is also (limited) supported and if you can decrypt your tv signal using a softcam you could record/watch encrypted channels also.
does this device show up as a /dev/video0 device under linux?

Hein

Yes, exactly.

well .. tvheadend can work with /dev/video0 devices ... so you can "try" to see if tvheadend can see the device. Not sure if tvheadend requires an interface to the device for tuning etc ..

In your case you can not tune from within tvheadend and other limitations .. but you can give it a try.

Hein

We've been using MythTV. Tuning is done with the cable STB via ir blaster.

This will probably lead to a different thread, but it doesn't see any tuners currently. I'm not clear on the instructions though, I thought there was something about needing to having a user with the right permissions before it would see it. But when I looked at the instructions I thought it said something about a default user. When I click the access control button there is nothing there. I can create a user but I'm not sure if there was already supposed to be a default user in place.