On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > >> You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there > >> any > >> cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? > >> > > I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV Card. > > Shame, doesn't yet exist but there are some hardware encoding devices > see: http://www.divx.com/products/hw/browse.php?c=6
It's not enough that this hardware exists; it also must be supported by Linux. Stable drivers don't fall from the sky unless the vendor is committed to supporting Linux, which sadly doesn't happen much at all. This entire discussion is academic, and moot in practice. The card you want is a Hauppauge PVR-150/250/350/500. It has taken the ivtv folks on the order of years to write a driver that I consider stable. A new card that dumps an mpeg4 stream would sure be nice, but unless it happens to work with an existing driver, such a card won't be usable on linux for a good, long time. So buy a Hauppauge PVR and a 160GB or larger harddisk. High quality mpeg2 video is about 2.5GB/hr. The current sweet spot in harddisks is about 320GB, which will hold well over 100 hours of recorded video. Transcode to mpeg4 anything you want to archive. This card is extremely popular with Linux HTPC users; MythTV targets is strongly, and I use this a PVR-350, so Freevo is sure to work with it too. If you need DVB, buy what dischi has. :) Cheers, Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
