[mythtv] R5000-HD

[Derek Atkins]

Alan Nisota <alannisota at gmail.com> writes:

> Info at quantum-sci.com wrote:
>>> The R5000 solution is quite expensive.  While I haven't tried it myself, 
>>> I'd seriously consider an HD-PVR instead as it doesn't tie you to a 
>>> single provider/STB.  Your support is likely to be better as the number 
>>> of users will be significantly larger.
>>>     
>>
>> Nah.  Open-source for me, thank you.  Debian user for many years.
>>
>>   
> A clarification:
> The HD-PVR that I was talking about is a card sold by Hauppague which 
> encodes component HD into h264 in hardware (much like the PVR250 but for 
> HD).  My understanding is that there are patches for Myth to use it 
> (it's pretty new), but don't know the details.

It's not a card, it's a box.  See:

  http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

> It should allow you to encode HD from any source supporting 
> component-out, and without the pain that is CoreAVC

-derek

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