John Drescher wrote: > On 1/20/07, Vitalino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an old AMD K7 700 with an Avermedia TVCapture98 card, which >> can >> capture video with low quality. >> >> I was thinking to buy a MPEG hardware encoder card like Hauppauge >> WinTV-PVR-150, for getting better home work video quality, without >> overloading CPU. >> > Yes, This is the best option for analog signals as it has a hardware > encoder that directly outputs mpeg-2. Just make sure you get a PVR150, > or PVR 250. I do not recommend a PVR 500 as some people are having > video quality issues (I have once such card) with the samsung tuners > and the signal amplifier that the current model of pvr 500s have.
The video signal has to be strong enough for 2 tuners. If the signal is weak to begin with it will only get worse with a PVR-500. > Also there are a few discussions that some vendors are selling PVR > 1600s as PVR 150s and this is a problem as I do not believe the > current drivers support this model. Someone correct me if I am wrong > on this one... That vendor is haupauge. Because of problem with availability they shipped *HVR* (not PVR) 1600's in the box of a PVR-150. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
