These guys saved whats left of my weekend. I was looking for more info about the cable box Comcast gave me and stumbled across this. The FCC ruled a while ago that the firewire ports on digital cable boxes have to be enabled so people can record digital content to their DVHS decks. Then Apple comes along and writes a virtual DVHS deck in software. So all I have to do is record whats coming out of the cable box and then VLC will play the file as it is recording. So I can finally watch TV and not just listen to it. I found this a bit late to watch the Formula 1 race, but at least right now I'm watching some Speed World Challenge races and I'm very happy.
Other good news is my real TV should be here on Tuesday. This hack should get me thru till then. Also in the future if I want to do some work with the video from the PVR I have a good way to get it into my computer.
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