Todd Bowman wrote:
Robert Tsai wrote:
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:25:06AM -0400, Todd Bowman wrote:
I'm thinking of adding a second frontend to be able to watch content
on a second TV and also to relieve some of the recording conflicts
that keep popping up. I'm looking for an "inexpensive" video
capture card. Since I have STBs for my digital cable, I don't need
a TV tuner, just S-Video. Does anybody have any recommendations?
I think you're confused.
The second frontend will let you watch content on a second TV, but it
won't help you with recording conflicts, nor does it need a video
capture card. (It will need a video card to display content to your
TV.)
Adding video capture cards to an existing backend (or building a
second slave backend machine) will help you with recording conflicts,
but by itself won't let you watch content on a second TV.
You can of course have machines running both FE and BE software.
(To [not] answer your explicitly-posed question, I don't have any
hardware recommendations.)
I guess a slave backend with frontend is what I meant. I don't think
adding a second capture card to my current MythTV box will work
because of the need for two STBs. Back to my original question: Any
recommendations for S-Video capture cards?
My $0.02...
a) You won't save any money buying an S-Video-only card--SDTV analog
tuners are dirt cheap today.
b) I highly recommend the PVR-x50's (and, personally, wouldn't touch a
frame grabber). If you've got experience with IvyTV, you could probably
get PVR-150 up and running and it's not much more expensive than "dumb"
frame grabbers. If not, there are still some really good deals on
PVR-250MCE's (which are easier to set up).
c) I have 2 tuners in my single FE/BE and both are connected to STB's
controlled via IR. I just had to change the channel code on one of them
(using code 1 and code 9 of 16). Works fine--especially since all MPEG
encoding is done on-card (so it even works on a friend's machine with 4
PVR-250's).
Mike
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