I've been looking at building a myth box (see http://www.mythtv.org/) and since I'm planning on using an older box I've been looking at cards with hardware encoding to take some of the load of the processor. I was considering purchasing a Hauppauge 250 (about $130) but then I came across a fellow on ebay with some AVerMedia M179 cards for only $49 (see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/Cheap_MPEG_c ards_P89011/ ).
Anyway, sounds like the card should be fully supported under Linux very soon if not already - the company that produces them seems very friendly to open source. I'm going to pick up a couple at this price (picture in picture :) )and wanted to see if anyone wanted to go in with me - with 5 the seller will ship for free. tom ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
