[mythtv-users] How usable is the G400-tv

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Mon Apr 21 21:10:42 UTC 2003


Kaushik Mallick wrote:
> Few other cards with hardware mpeg2 compression:
> 
> 1. AVerMedia M179 AVerTV PVR TV Tuner 
> 
> 2. Emuzed Maui PCI PVR
> 
> 3. KWorld DVD Maker (TV version)
> 
> 4. Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR card
> 
> The first two are specifically marketed for Windows
> MCE along with Hauppage PVR 250 and 350.

The thing that is always overlooked in these threads is that
MythTV does not support any cards, it supports interactions
with drivers. The reason there is work to support the
Hauppage PVR cards is because there is now the ivtv driver.

There are lots of mpeg2 cards in the world but the only ones
that might work with the current work in progress are cards
that are supported by the ivtv drivers:

http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#_jump01

This implies that other cards may be supported but the
source code uses these just these defines:

#define IVTV_250_V1 0 /* wintv pvr 250, encoder and decoder */
#define IVTV_250_V2 1 /* pvr 250, encoder only */
#define IVTV_350_V1 2 /* encoder, decoder, tv-out */

Until there is verification of support for any other specific
card, it would be wise to assume that only the Hauppage PVR
250 and 350 might work with ivtv and therefore might work
with MythTV.

--  bjm



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