Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > I plan to get a dual ATSC tunner at some point, but as the 2250 does not > seem to even be out yet and the HDHomeRun does not support NTSC, I am > looking at getting a cheaper card that does suport NTSC for now. I am runing > VDR and using the Nexus RGB out to a 23 year old Sony. So any HD must be > down scaled anyway. AS a couple of our Digital locals are HD, this is what I > want a card with NTSC for, to get the SDTV format of those channels. Cards > like the pcHDTV HD-5500 while claiming to suport NTSC, do not have a HW mpeg > encoder to convert the video to a format that can be sent out the Nexus > video out. You would still need to set up software encoder/decoders. Problem > is, the specs for ATSC tuner cards fall far short of providing this info. So > what I want to know is, do any of the following cards have HW mpeg2 encoders > that is suported by linux/vdr: > > DVICO FusionHDTV 5 RT Lite > http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-lite.html?gclid=CJODl6T0-ZECFQovgwod0Vg_xA > > KWorld ATSC 115 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260005 (they also > have a 120, but I'm not finding much about linix suport for it ether) > > Pinnacle PCTV HD > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815144018
None of the above have hardware mpeg encoders. A good card that I'd recommend for your needs right now is the Hauppauge HVR-1800. This is a dual tuner combo atsc/qam / hardware mpeg encoder card. Already the ATSC/QAM support is in the 2.6.24 kernel. Stoth has the hardware mpeg encoder working in his cx23885-video tree. After some more testing and cleanups, it will eventually be merged into the master repository, hopefully in time for the 2.6.26 kernel release. HTH, Mike _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
