On 3/27/06, John Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might check out www.digitalconnection.com > I am using 2 DVICO FusionHDTV3 with the DVB driver in a Myth box. > I think the latest version is the FusionHDTV5. > > John >
I just bought a HD5000 air2pc HDTV Capture card (http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=46), and thought I would share my experiences with it: Unless you have a very recent video card and a very fast CPU, video playback sucks, whether live or recorded. Before you jump on a HDTV capture card, play the clip at http://pchdtv.com/downloads/tst.tar in mplayer or xine on your target system. (Note that it's an mpeg stream, not a tar file as the url implies). I thought my Athlon XP 3000+ with 512MB ram and rinky-dink video card (ATI 7500 and Nvidia GeForce 2) would be fine, but it chews all my CPU and chops like crazy. I just bought a new GeForce 6200A with HDTV out and it seems to be able to play that clip ok, but I haven't had a lot of time to really play. My cpu usage still seems to be very very high though. The nuts and bolts of it is: you need a really good mpeg decoder to do decode hdtv signals in realtime. As for the broadcast flag, I don't think any hardware got made that supports it. If it did, the mfg jumped the gun. -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
