Subj : Re: Hey Tyler - MythTV
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 22:23:42

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Rick Savoia wrote:
> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>> Rick Savoia wrote:
>>> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>>>> Rick Savoia wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Tyler,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a MythTV box?
>>>> 
>>>> Yep.  Need help with anything?
>>>
>>> I'm getting started with one.  Can you stream Live TV with it?
>> 
>> Yep.  I've watched live TV on my laptop with Myth.
>> 
>>> My PC has Snapstream and you can stream live TV but only if you have
>>> a software encoder and I have a hardware encoder. 
>> 
>> Myth doesn't care where the video came from once it has it buffered.
>> AFAICT.
>> 
>>> I am building a new machine though and was going to go linux/mythTV.
>> 
>> What encoder card(s) were you planning on getting?
>
> I'd probably stick with the Hauppauge series.  It's been pretty
> stable.  Got a recommendation?

For encoding only, there's the PVR250, PVR150, PVR150MCE and the PVR500.

The PVR250 is becoming rare and is (supposedly, I've never used one)
better quality than the newer 150.  It's also more expensive than the
150.

The difference between the 150 and the 150MCE is that the MCE doesn't
come with a remote, but has a radio tuner and has RCA jacks instead of a
single headphone-style jack for audio (for svideo or composite input).

The PVR500 is two 150MCEs on a single card.

If you only need one tuner, the 150MCE is probably the way to go.

They all work with the IVTV drivers at www.ivtvdriver.org.
-- 
Tyler Trafford

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
		-- Henry David Thoreau

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