Hi
Last week I had the same question about the difference between the
500MCE and the 500 (without the MCE).
I mailed the dutch Haupauge technical support about my question (was to
lazy to search around with google).
They say, the MCE version is exactly the same as the "normal" PVR-500.
They also mentioned that a singel PVR-500 is basically the same as two
PVR 150 on one card.
Greets
If you can read dutch here is their email......
Er is maar 1 PVR500, en dat is de PVR500MCE.
Dit is een OEM product dat eigenlijk helemaal niet los verkocht hoort te
worden.
Het is een fabeltje dat deze alleen zou werken met MCE, theoretisch kan deze
kaart met meer software werken, en er zijn ook diverse andere aanbieders
(waaronder freeware programmatuur) die deze kaart inmiddels ondersteunen.
De PVR500 werkt echter niet met onze eigen WinTV 2000 applicatiesoftware,
aangezien deze niet meer dan 1 TV tuner ondersteunt.
In hoeverre de kaart in Linux kan werken weet ik niet, maar wanneer de
PVR150 wordt ondersteund, dan zou theoretisch de PVR500 ook kunnen werken
aangezien deze kaart technisch gezien niet meer is dan een dubbele PVR150 op
1 PCI kaart.
Joe Votour wrote:
See inline.
-- Joe
--- "Zach.Burlingame" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I am reading up on creating my own MythTV setup
in our apartment and one
of the things I am currently debating is using 2
Hauppauge PVR-150s or 1
Hauppauge PVR-500 because of its dual
tuners/encoders. I noticed that in the
case of the PVR-150 there is both a "vanilla"
version and an "MCE" (for
Windows XP Media Center Edition). However, I can
only find the PVR-500 in
the MCE flavor. I will be receiving one signal from
digital cable using an
IR blaster to control the cable box and the other
signal from the basic
cable. I do PLAN on moving both to digital cable, so
if the PVR-500 does not
support dual IR blasters, that would break its
contention in my decision. My
questions are as follows:
Is the Hauppauge PVR-500 only offered as the
"PVR-500MCE"?
That appears to be the case. I figure that if
Hauppauge was selling the cards in the non-MCE
version, they likely would, because lots of people
would be interested in it. (On the other hand, it
might cut into their sales of PVR-x50 cards too).
How is the support in Linux for the PVR-500 (e.g. is
it any more difficult
running two tuners/encoders on the PVR-500 versus 2
separate PVR-150s)?
The ivtv driver sees PVR-500 as two PVR-150 cards. I
don't know about the radio though, I haven't tried it.
What is your general experience / recommendation on
the single PVR-500
versus dual PVR-150 decision?
I've never used a PVR-150, but I'm very happy with my
PVR-500. I use it along with a PVR-250 for a total of
three tuners.
Thanks for any and all help/feedback.
- Zach
Here is some background on what type of
hardware/software environment I am
currently looking at:
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Backend:
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Linux Distro: Gentoo Linux
Processor: AMD Athlon64 3000+ (Winchester
Core)
Mobo: Asus A8N-E (w/ Nforce4 Ultra
chipset, PCI-E, and SATAII)
RAM: 2x 512MB DDR 400 PC-3200 CAS 2.5
Storage: 2x 40GB 7200 RPM 2MB cache ATA133
in RAID 1 (system)
3x 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB cache
SATA in software RAID 5
(data, video)
Network: 100Mbit switched LAN
Tuners: 2 x Hauppauge PVR-150 or 1 x
Hauppauge PVR-500
Signal: For starters, 1 digital cable +
1 basic cable signal.
Moving to dual digital cable signal.
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Frontend(s):
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TBD
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