[Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread mat holton
Hi there! I want to buy a hardware encoder card for freevo but also one that will work with MythTV. As I understand it, freevo doesn't work with a central recording server? Am I wrong? I want my home network to contain a dedicated machine for TV-recordings. any help or ideas? mat

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: Hi there! I want to buy a hardware encoder card for freevo but also one that will work with MythTV. As I understand it, freevo doesn't work with a central recording server? Am I wrong? AFAIK, freevo has network support and a record server, never used this feature as my

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread The Hog
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 16-Oct-2006 11:38 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card mat holton wrote: Hi there! I want to buy a hardware encoder card for freevo but also one that will work

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread mat holton
Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. If you need to store many recordings then either buy a big harddisk or use a machine that is fast enough to recode MPEG2 to MPEG4. On my machine (Via

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Monday 16 October 2006 20:04, mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. If you need to store many recordings then either buy a big harddisk or use a machine that is fast

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. Of course, you can do real-time DIVX encoding with mencoder but there is a noticeable loss of quality. Higher quality conversion

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread The Hog
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. Of course, you can do real-time DIVX encoding with

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 16 de Octubre de 2006 11:10, mat holton escribió: I want to buy a hardware encoder card for freevo but also one that will work with MythTV. As I understand it, freevo doesn't work with a central recording server? Am I wrong? Hi. I want to add a request to the discussion. I'll soon

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread mat holton
The Hog wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. Of course,

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: The Hog wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means.

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV Card. Shame, doesn't yet exist but there are some

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread John Molohan
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV Card.

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread mat holton
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV Card.