[mythtv-users] WinTV PVR-pci AVI capture...

[Gerald Britton]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 03:38:05AM +0000, Desmond Rivet wrote:
> The Hauppauge site seems to indicate that the WinTV PVR-pci can do raw AVI 
> capture. Is this functionality supported under MythTV? That is to say, if I 
> wanted to forgo the MPEG2 capture and just capture straight to AVI, would 
> MythTV be able to use this card for this purpose?

This card is basically a bttv-style card with an mpeg encoder hanging off
of the bt878's GPIOs and I2S bus.  There is also a separate video decoder
hanging off the I2C bus.  This card is supported as a generic bttv device
with recent versions of the bttv driver.  The driver must load some
firmware onto the card before audio works properly.  Because of the way
this card's architecture is, I suspect it will not support the btaudio
method of capturing sound.

				-- Gerald