Hello all,
I’ve been camping out on this list just listening what people are saying about their various uses/configurations of mythtv. There is a really huge diversity of configurations. Probably one of the best things about mythtv is this displayed versatility. I’ve been struggling with my own configurations and I’ve tried a few, but still a little behind the curve compared to many of you. I hope you could shed a little light for me. Forgive me for the dumb questions. I’ve tried searching for answers, but I can’t really find anything other than answers for troubleshooting technical issues. Right now, I am using MythTV on EPIA MII12000 with a WinTV-PVR 250. It’s working great for me except I don’t have closed-captioning!!!! Argh! What a pain. I noticed nobody really talks about CC on the list much. Maybe no one uses it except for me. It’s a really huge deal for me though. I don’t think I’m hard of hearing, but I find I like to read the conversations more since a lot of the “overacting” on television anymore makes it tough to understand dialogue. Am I going to find a Mpeg2-encoding tv tuner that supports closed captioning out there? I’ve almost reserved myself to going back to my cheap analog tuner and pumping my system up. I found that AMD now makes a low power 64-bit processor “Turion.” It’s like a low power Athlon 64. Goes up to 2 Ghz which should be sufficient for encoding/decoding mpeg2 realtime. I don’t want to use the analog card if I can help it though. Last time I tried it, I couldn’t get sound out of live tv. Must have been something to do with my btaudio driver and ALSA. Anyway, I gave up and that’s how I ended up with the PVR-250. It was just too good at simplifying things for me. I’ve noticed though that there are a whole slew of digital cards that people are talking about using. I don’t know much about them though. I noticed people like to use pcHDTV or DVB cards. I looked at the NEXUS and pcHDTV cards and I just couldn’t figure out if they supported closed captioning well. Does anyone know if they support closed captioning? Also, are the pcHDTV or DVB cards only for HD/Digital television or could I use it on my analog cable tv signal as well? I plan to go to HDTV pretty soon and maybe even upgrade to digital cable for the HD cable stations. I just don’t plan to do it right now. I’m just interested in the best quality picture I can get with mpeg2 encoding and closed captioning from my analog cable signal. Is it possible to do that with DVB or pcHDTV cards? Thanks much for your input, Leo Przybylski
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