Eric Hattemer wrote:
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
It appears that there's a lot of interest in MythTV, which is spilling
over to Linux.
Does any one have any thoughts/comments re Hauppauge 250 vs 350?
Thanx. Wayne
You'd do really well to ask the mythtv-users list from
http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/ . There are
hundreds of them with lots of experience with those cards.
Looks like the better option is to get a PVR 250 with nVidia combo. See:
The output quality on the 350 is very good for SDTV, but beware: With
the 350 it will be difficult or impossible to get BIOS/bootup messages
and to play back any video not captured by the 350 (or in standard SD
MPEG-2).
This means no HD, no Divx, no Xvid, no MPEG-4 of any kind, etc.
If you're only planning on playing back SDTV that you capture, the 350
will do nicely. If you care about transcoding, DVD archiving, etc, the
350 will probably disappoint you.
Most likely you'd be better off going out through an nvidia card (gf4
/ fx). You should be able to get one for $50-$60 that has a heatsink
(rather than a fan) and outputs through DVI and S-video as well as VGA
