Re: Wanted: PVR Mentor
>>>>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:53:41 -0500, Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> said:
m> Most Hauppauge WinTV cards are bt8x8 cards, which would work with this
m> driver. However, the WinTV PVR series that the original poster referred
m> to is unrelated. They use a real-time hardware MPEG2 encoder, and I
m> don't think anybody's written a Linux driver for it yet (let alone one
m> that would work on a non-Intel platform).
There's one under development (still early but some people are
already using it for MythTV):
http://ivtv.sf.net/
I don't know how difficult it would be to port to a PPC platform.
m> I could be wrong, but I think the WinTV PVR cards can't do hardware MPEG
m> decoding at all. They're just for capture, but you get a CD of Windows
m> software that includes the MPEG2 codec for playback.
The WinTV PVR-250 has no decoder. The WinTV PVR-350 (which
the OP referred to) does have one (but no Linux driver AFAIK):
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/chart.htm
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Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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