I just purchased this card from newegg and have been following the guide on http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/ to get it working FC3.
The video and changing cannels now seem to work (back and front end on the same shuttle pc that I am using). However, audio and remote controller not so lucky. I was able to use the script at: http://www.mind.lu/%7Eyg/ftvco/ Is there any such handy scripts to help me get the audio and remote working? Has anyone got the magic script? thanks for any advice - ian On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 04:37:29 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I picked up an x-pert tv-pvr by v-stream on newegg > > TV TUNER KWRLD CAPTR VS-TV878RF (Qty=1,Price=$36.50) > > It seems to allow mpeg4 encoding and playing back on athlon 2500 systems > although I think if you turn the settings way up, you get a little slow > down. I probably need to switch away from reiserfs as per the > recomendations eventually. (kernel 2.6.10) > > These cards seem to have a bit of area digitalized that doesn't have > picture when connected to my dish network receiver. This is nothing > new. I got the same results when I used ati all in wonder cards in > windows so I don't think its a fault of the card. > > One possible advantage of recording directly in mpeg4 is if you can > avoid transcoding it later when you make the final copy. I don't know > if thats possible. Of course the mpeg4 versions will take up less disk > space, but the mpeg2 versions will likely be a little sharper in the > short term. (Mpeg2 was last I looked a little sharper than mpeg4 when > data rates aren't an issue, but that may have changed. It was a close > thing anyway.) > > Afaik with the Hauppage cards that do mpeg encoding in hardware and feed > the stream as needed, so you don't use any cpu time. > > What I would really like that will _NEVER_ happen is a dish network > receiver that works directly with myth and allows the decrypted mpeg2 > signal from the satellite to be used directly. That way there is no > further loss until transcoding occurs. > > What I would eventually like to see is a lossless codec available for > the recording process like huffuv. (There may be something better, but > the main thing is for it to be lossless.) That way you could set the > device to record using that and then transcode to the final form using > as agressive of encoding options as you wanted. (Afaik huffuv is > basically motion jpeg with the error encoded with huffman encoding.) > With that kind of approach you could, theoretically get better results > than encoding to mpeg2 first with a hardware card, but those results > come at the cost of a lot of disk space, at least for a little while. > Note, that this kind of codec would likely be too bandwidth intensive to > work across a network unless you had gigabit networking. > > I'm not sure about the rest. You really need someones opinion that has > compared these side by side. The quality of the electronics involved > can sometimes have a non trivial impact > > -Robert > > > Dan Christensen wrote: > > >I'm about to order the components for a system that will run MythTV > >(as well as do other things), and I have a few questions. > > > >I'm trying to decide between the PVR-250 and the 350, or maybe even > >something without hardware encoding. I was thinking that I would > >store video in a format that allows for higher compression, > >e.g. MPEG-4. So is there any point in using a card which does > >encoding in hardware? In fact, would using one of the Hauppauge cards > >mean that video would need to be decoded and then re-encoded, and > >would this cause a loss in quality? > > > >For playback, I believe the 350 can only decode MPEG-2 in hardware. > >Can it display video that is decoded in software? Or would such video > >need to be played through a separate video card? > > > >I'm not very familiar with Dolby audio. Is support for this something > >that people find useful when using MythTV? > > > >Thanks for any tips, > > > >Dan > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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