[olug] Hauppauge Win TV Card on Sale at CompUSA
Brandon Lederer
brandon at tolkien-movies.com
Sun Sep 5 19:13:39 UTC 2004
You cannot encode MPEG2 with MythTV unless you have a PVR250. This is, of
course, as far as I know. B/C I want to edit commercials out MPEG2 ->
MPEG2..... and cant do it........ yet they say.
On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:10 pm, Daniel Pfile wrote:
> It doesn't have an onboard mpeg encoder, only the wintv-pvr-250/350s
> do. (As far as wintv goes) Mythtv has a feature that will transcode the
> video in the background after you capture though. So you could use the
> lowest cpu encoding myth has to offer, then transcode to mpeg2/4
> afterwards in the background (niced of course). As long as you're not
> recording 24/7 your pc should eventually get everything down to a
> reasonable size, you'll need more space until things get converted
> though.
>
> Nice and cheap though...
>
> -- Daniel
>
> On Sep 5, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Aaron Grothe wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Anybody building a PVR might be interested in the following.
> >
> > http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?
> > product_code=260799&pfp=SEARCH
> >
> > It is only $20, after rebate. I haven't played with this version of
> > the card yet. I just got
> > mine home. Your mileage may vary, but I know a lot of people have
> > good luck with Hauppauge's
> > cards. With the encoder on board it lets an older machine PII handle
> > video streams pretty well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Aaron
> > =-=-=
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> >
> >
> >
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