PVR's

[Paul Mora]

On 12/19/05, Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Staples had Haupp. 150 cards on sale this week,  but it seems spending a
> bit
> more would be worthwhile.  Like much more reasonable than the $800 for
> some
> of the commercial units that are available.


Building a PVR on MythTV is not necessarily cheaper, but definetly more
fun.  Also, you can do so much more with it than a dedicated PVR appliance.

When looking for cards, keep in mind how you want to display the output to
your TV.  Some video cards have S-Video and composite outputs on the card,
but they may be more difficult to get working under Linux.

In my MythTV PVR, I use two cards; the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250, and the
350.  The 350 does hardware encoding/decoding, while the 250 only does
hardware encoding.  The result is that I can use a low-end machine as the
PVR.  If you use cards that do not decode in hardware (like the 150, I
believe) then you need a faster CPU.  The disadvantage is that the 250 and
350 are fairly expensive.  But, you may find a cheap one on eBay.

It's all in the FAQ at the sites Colin referenced.

Another source of information is the presentation I did a few months ago for
NewTLUG.  You can access it here:
http://www.mora.ca/node/3.<http://www.mora.ca/node/3>

Good luck!

pm

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