[mythtv] Semi-OT: Which HDTV card to buy for Myth?

Cory Papenfuss papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu
Sun Jan 30 12:54:41 EST 2005


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Taylor Jacob wrote:

> Quoting Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk at mrl.nyu.edu>:
>> includes a on-chip MPEG2 decoder (not currently used). It should also
>> be kinder to cheap or poorly configured motherboards when recording a
>> single show, since it does pid filtering on-chip.
>
> The Air2PC does not have an Mpeg decoder built in.

 	From what I've read on it today, it has a subset MPEG decoder.  It 
won't play video, but it will interpret enough of the MPEG-TS stream to 
filter out specific PIDs.  In other words, if one is receiving a station 
that has a simultaneous SD and HD within the same "channel," then the card 
itself can choose only one or the other.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss							*
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