Jason Tackaberry wrote: > 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. > That's all very valid info. I might update the website/wiki with these recommendations. > If you need DVB, buy what dischi has. :) > And what might that be dischi? If I'm updating the site we might as well sort this out too. > Cheers, > Jason. >
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