On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:27:18 +1300 Craig FALCONER wrote: > Get a hauppauge PVR card. The PVR-150 is really cheap given that it has an > on-board mpeg2 encoder. > > The 250 is basically the same. The 350 has TV out, and the 500 is dual > tuner (essentially two 150s on the same card) > > The MCE version is supposed to work fine with mythtv.
I confirm all of the above. the other hardware encoder option is a Plextor ConvertX PVR which hardware encodes to mpeg2 and mpeg4 and is supported by linux and mythtv > > Don't bother with a philips SAA7134 based card... They're dumb frame > grabbers, and need basically a new CPU to run them with mythtv. > > I have found a bunch of links for the episode guide for New Zealand - will > email them tonight/tomorrow. > >
