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bfoddy at visi

Apr 15, 2003, 9:49 PM

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WinPVR Support?

I was completely shocked just now when I stumbled on
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html
talking about an update today claiming support hardware
encoding of the Hauppauge PVR cards, dated today. Congrats.
I wasn't expecting that support for a while. Did I skip past
an announcement on these lists recently?

Is there any more info on this topic? ie:
1. Any gotchas? I see it only supports 1 card right now; hopefully will be
addressed by the driver authors.
2. I saw a statement on the ivtv site indicating sound may not work??
3. Do you consider this approach ready for prime-time?
4. The Hauppauge site claims only the 350 does hardware compression, but
your site and the driver site seem to imply the 250 can also. Comments?
If so, any other reason to get the 350?

This could drastically alter my plans for building a better machine in the
months ahead. The cards are definately more expensive, but they could
allow much cheaper cpu specs.

BTW, the reason I was looking at this page again was I an reinstalling
my dual 450 with Mandrake 9.1 so hopefully I can get a clean coredump
to help with the backend problems I've seen.

Thanks,
Brian

mythtv at firelizards

Apr 15, 2003, 10:01 PM

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Re: WinPVR Support? [In reply to]

on that same note. Does the support for ivtv actually make an MPEG2
file or is it still in that vupple video esque format that myth uses? I
really want to have straight MPEG 2 streams to work with for various
reasons and trying to get my PVR250 working with ivtv right now, so I am
looking to use this new feature of myth.
Eric

Brian Foddy wrote:

>I was completely shocked just now when I stumbled on
>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html
>talking about an update today claiming support hardware
>encoding of the Hauppauge PVR cards, dated today. Congrats.
>I wasn't expecting that support for a while. Did I skip past
>an announcement on these lists recently?
>
>Is there any more info on this topic? ie:
>1. Any gotchas? I see it only supports 1 card right now; hopefully will be
>addressed by the driver authors.
>2. I saw a statement on the ivtv site indicating sound may not work??
>3. Do you consider this approach ready for prime-time?
>4. The Hauppauge site claims only the 350 does hardware compression, but
>your site and the driver site seem to imply the 250 can also. Comments?
>If so, any other reason to get the 350?
>
>This could drastically alter my plans for building a better machine in the
>months ahead. The cards are definately more expensive, but they could
>allow much cheaper cpu specs.
>
>BTW, the reason I was looking at this page again was I an reinstalling
>my dual 450 with Mandrake 9.1 so hopefully I can get a clean coredump
>to help with the backend problems I've seen.
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>
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mschrag at pobox

Apr 16, 2003, 5:15 AM

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Re: WinPVR Support? [In reply to]

1) My 250 is not the most stable thing in the world right now (driver
problem, not mythtv) ... I definitely get the occasional hard lockup.
This is on an Athlon 1Ghz. I've also noticed a couple times that if I
shut down the frontend, I can't get video when I start back up (i have
to recycle the backend)
2) My sound seems to be working fine (at least on live tv). I haven't
tried scheduled recording yet, which is probably the real test. I'll do
this tonight.
3) I think ivtv isn't ready for prime time-yet, but development seems to
be moving pretty quickly.
4) "*WinTV-PVR-250 uses a new integrated MPEG1/MPEG2 encoder" (from
hauppage.com). I believe the 350 also has a hardware DECODER, which the
250 does not appear to have.

*
Brian Foddy wrote:

>I was completely shocked just now when I stumbled on
>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html
>talking about an update today claiming support hardware
>encoding of the Hauppauge PVR cards, dated today. Congrats.
>I wasn't expecting that support for a while. Did I skip past
>an announcement on these lists recently?
>
>Is there any more info on this topic? ie:
>1. Any gotchas? I see it only supports 1 card right now; hopefully will be
>addressed by the driver authors.
>2. I saw a statement on the ivtv site indicating sound may not work??
>3. Do you consider this approach ready for prime-time?
>4. The Hauppauge site claims only the 350 does hardware compression, but
>your site and the driver site seem to imply the 250 can also. Comments?
>If so, any other reason to get the 350?
>
>This could drastically alter my plans for building a better machine in the
>months ahead. The cards are definately more expensive, but they could
>allow much cheaper cpu specs.
>
>BTW, the reason I was looking at this page again was I an reinstalling
>my dual 450 with Mandrake 9.1 so hopefully I can get a clean coredump
>to help with the backend problems I've seen.
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>
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>http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
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