USB TV-Turner adapters to Xbox/XBMC?

From what I've seen, the xbmc seems to be restricted to only being able to view and fetch files from the net, or the hdd. Is there some way that something like a hauppauge USB TV Tuner could be developed and coded so it could become a frontend PVR like Myth, without the need for an additional linux box?

This has been flogged to death and wont happen due to drivers and bandwitdh of USB1
Least thats what I read

well it is open source, so feel free to somehow hack together some drivers for that device which work on Xbox and then somehow make that work

Hi guys,

I was wondering whether it was possible to connect a USB Digital TV tuner and use it with XBMC? Someone must have explored this idea, only I can only find versions that sync your PC into doing the work instead.

Just think, being able to decode and record live TV as well as all the other XBMC features would mean being able to throw away all of your other boxes under the TV!

well, this would be very easy if the manufacturer of the hardware made drivers for the Xbox. but since none of this kind exist, you would need to find open source drivers and then port them over. also the XBox only has USB 1.1, which means your image quality will be pretty low due to the limited bandwidth involved.

if you can find a USB tuner will open source drivers and you can get it to a developer some how then maybe someone may be able to actually work on this. if this is not the case then this will not happen.

Hello,

One thing I would find handy is the ability to access a USB connected FM tuner. DLink made a number of these. The USB handles the channel selection, and audio is provided over a standard analog feed, which can be mixed (AFAIK). There may be some that hand off audio in a PCM stream or something, but who cares.

I haven't looked at the linux driver, but with any luck the line level output volume could also be controlled, so it would be possible to control volume via xbox.

A python accessable handoff to set frequency should be straight forward.

I'm using my Xbox in a car, and FM reception is the only reason to keep the standard car stereo. I'm going to dump mine anyways, putting the composite fed LCD in the dash.

There is linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD support for the dlink USB FM tuner and perhaps others. I don't use or own the dlink, I'm just aware they are cheap.

I'm not sure how many others use their xboxes as their car stereos, though.

Ok we have a USB Digital TV adapter, now heres the idea, create a program (i can do python for 1) or inbreed an update with compatibility for a tv adapter or something like that so yeh just an idea.

Xbox is USB 1 most if not all usb tv tuners are USB 2

There are a few usb 1.1 tv options out there.

I have used a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T and Nova-S usb boxes.
They're Great.