If you're in the market currently for the PVR-250, CompUSA has it on sale for $100 after a $30 Mail in Rebate. They're sold out online, but they may have it in the store. They've been good in the past with giving rain checks, if they're out of stock in the store.
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=310591&ref=cj&pfp=cj A couple of TiVo type applications you might want to check out are: http://www.mythtv.org/ http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ I've never used either of these, but they *look* pretty neat :). -Nick ----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Tucker, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: 'BYU Unix Users Group' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: [uug] All In Wonder Radeon 7500 > >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:02:00 -0500 > > > > I've used some of the older Matrox Marvel video capture cards with some > >success. If this is something you going to use frequently, my advise is to > >save up and get something with hardware mpeg2 encoding. Anything else is > >going to store the scream in a non-mpeg format that will have to be > >converted later. I haven't seen any OpenSource software that will > >transcode > >a high res, high bitrate mpeg stream in real time. (You have to consider > >both res. and bitrate) Usually the video and audio have to be encoded > >separately and the muxed together later. It's a pain, and time consuming. > > I've heard good things about the PVR-250/350 cards working well under > >Linux. My next purchase will likely be the PVR-250. > > > >dave > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Kelly Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:45 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [uug] All In Wonder Radeon 7500 > > > > > >I'm looking for a video card that can receive broadcast tv and encode mpeg > >video. Video/tuner cards with built-in hardware encoding for the high > >resolution I want are one solution but are expensive. I was considering > >purchasing a All In Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB DDR AGP video/tuner card. With > >the windows software it supports recording video at high resolution (at > >least > >720x480). Does any one know if this card can be used fully in linux, ie. > >as > > > >a TV tuner/video card that you can record mpeg video from using your CPU? > >Anyone have suggestions/experience for a video/tuner card that I can record > >video from? It doesn't have to have built-in/hardware capture as long as I > >can record with it using the CPU. > >-- > >It said use windows 95 or better so I loaded linux! > >In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates? > >Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >____________________ > >BYU Unix Users Group > >http://uug.byu.edu/ > >___________________________________________________________________ > >List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > >____________________ > >BYU Unix Users Group > >http://uug.byu.edu/ > >___________________________________________________________________ > >List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. > http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
