On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:34:10 -0800, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, Craig Partin top-posted (grr): > > You forgot the AverMedia M179, which is a Hauppauge knockoff. Lots of > > people seem to think they are lower quality cards than the PVR-x50s. > > They run about $80. > > I picked up two of 'em at Fry's a while back for $40 each. Unfortunately, > I've never gotten them to record with the same quality as the PVR-x50s I > have. The audio level is fixed at such a high level that line-in gets > distorted, so you can't record from S-video or composite input. The tuner > also appears to be of inferior quality; it picks up more interference than > the Hauppauge cards. > > At one point, the card that was installed in the MythTV box just stopped > working. No combination of different versions of ivtv or rebooting/power- > cycling the machine would fix it. I limped along with just a PVR-350 for a > week or so while a PVR-250 from an eBay seller was in transit to replace the > M179. > > Is there a version of ivtv you've run across that gets the M179 working > better than I've managed? I'm currently running 0.2.0 RC3. (Hmm...I thought > I was running 0.3.something from Chris Kennedy's webpage, which might > explain why the M179 quit working. Even when I was running 0.3.1y (IIRC), > the M179 didn't work as well as the PVR-350.) > > _/_ > / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) > (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! > \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > >
I don't have a PVR-250, so I have nothing else to compare it to. It records pretty good video for my needs. It often is as good as my plain cable feed. I record at 480x480 with a bitrate around 4000. Certain channels are better than others. You may be right about the tuner, but its never bad enough to bother me or impede enjoyment of a recording. Right now I'm on ivtv-0.2.0-rc3c, which is so far the best ivtv yet. Here's my modules.conf ### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/ivtv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c options ivtv ivtv-debug=0 tuner=2 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 debug=0 add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner saa7127 add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c Kernel is 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 TV is a cheap 19 inch. Video output is RCA from my GF4 MX440 PS - sorry about the top post.
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