On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Richard Ellis wrote:
> It all depends on your intended use (and the availability of drivers
> for the H250 or H350). The H250's and H350's have one real big
The MythTV project (www.mythtv.org) claim to be able to use the
Hauppauge 250 and 350 card (and can use the mpeg-2 decoder of the
350 for output).
> advantage over a plain DC10+ or your ADVC box, in that they contain
> an onboard cable compatible tuner, so you don't need an additional
True. An extra cable or two doesn't bother me though ;) I have an
external tuner - last time I recorded a show I just parked my D8
camcorder on top of the box and connected the cables up.
> If one's primary use is for VCR like time shifting, the H250's/350's
> (depending on driver availability) offer ease of use, quickness, and
> disk space savings (compare a 1.5G mpeg2 file of a 1 hour tv show to
With 160GB drives going for $75 I can't get excited about
being a member of the diskspace conservation club :) The 250GB
drives were around $140 last weekend but I have all the disk I need
at the moment.
> ...were no linux drivers (or what did exist was extremely extremely
> basic) for the Hauppage cards. The zoran drivers for the DC10+'s was
> way more mature than anything for linux and the Hauppage cards. If
> anyone knows the state of the Hauppage cards now, please feel free to
MythTV claims support for the 250 and 350. Alas though the WinTV-HD
(the Hauppauge HighDefinition) card is windoze only :-(
There is a HD TV card (not for cable though) from www.pchdtv.com
that I have been eyeing - bit rough around the edges though ("bleeding
edge" drivers, etc) but looks quite interesting. MythTV has support
for the PCHDTV card too from what I read. At that point the use
of mjpegtools would be for transcoding the MPEG-TS data into other
MPEG flavors.
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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