Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > There are still two cards being sold now which work well: > * pcHDTV HD-3000 > * AirStar HD-5000
I have an AirStar HD-5000 and, I must say, I've had no luck whatsoever getting this card to work with MythTV-through-ATrpms on Fedora Core 4. All existing online documentation, including www.hd5000.com, seems to involve either a) backdating to an earlier kernel version that the current stock 2.6.14-xxxx I'm running now, and/or b) covers the earlier Air2PC cards. While the stock b2c2-flexcop-pci module autodetects and loads fine, with appropriate dmesg signals, none of the stock frontend modules (such as lgdt330x) does anything, and I sure wish there was a straightforward way to compile just an updated module and nothing else to modprobe for my purposes, the way that I was able to download the driver for my PCI Ethernet gigabit Ethernet card (a newer version of a driver with my stock kernel) and compile it on the fly. Yes, I could roll my own kernel; I've been doing it for ten years this January. I'd just rather not have to do it again this time around. > Hardware decoding for HDTV is pretty deficient at the moment, there is a > VIA motherboard chipset which some people have reported success with and > a nVidia 5xxx chipsets work ok with Chromakey OSD, while the nVidia 6xxx > and 7xxx chipsets are pretty sucky when it comes to HDTV playback. Do I understand you to say that my 6200 is actually *inferior* to a 5200 in decoding HDTV recordings for Myth? That's new to me. Heck, I'm not even sure there *are* any 5xxx-vintage cards that are also PCI Express-compatible, which I need in my situation. > You'll be much happier with HDTV playback if you get a processor running > at 2.8 Ghz or above and use software decoding. And indeed, for the record, I've had no trouble with non-XvMC HDTV decoding on my late model Pentium 4 3.0GHz uniprocessor frontend/backend; in fact, XvMC still causes noticeable flickering when OSD pops up. It's more than usable, and I'd be happy with it if I had to resort to it, but as many others have observed (especially back when, as I gather, Myth's XvMC support was much weaker than it is now) it's nice to not have to. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US
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