The latest MythTV (0.19) raves about the capabilities of the 350 (nice TV out). The 350 is the *only* Hauppauge card with HARDWARE encoding and DECODING. The 150 and the 250 are the same in features supporting only hardware encoding. I believe the 150 is just a cheaper PCB.
I'm hoping to *finally* setup a MythTV box with my ATI HDTV Wonder in the next few weeks. My primary purpose isn't for TV though since I don't watch the stuff. I'd like to be able to rip my DVD collection and be able to browse and watch anything I want with proper surround sound and a properly scaled picture on my little plasma via VGA or Component input. Time will tell if I get it done soon or not. That be all, Mr O. --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that benefit of the wintv-pvr model# 350 was also a > major gripe -- > if I read right (disclaimer: somewhere, a while ago!) you can > *only* get > mpeg2 video out of this card... does anyone have one and know > if you can get > the raw video, to do your own encoding with? That is, as > opposed to > decoding the mpeg2 stream, then re-encoding it (yuck, with the > mpeg2 > artifacts, although I guess you could set that to the highest > quality)... > so if this is true, it would depend on your desired usage. > NewEgg doesn't > seem to carry the 350, although they have various 150 models > ($53-$85), with > and without remotes. Even a low-profile 150 model, nice! > Amazon has the > 350 for $134. The model# 500 has dual mpeg encoders&tuners. > > cheerio, > > Ben > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
