[mythtv-users] Avermedia M179 Good or Bad

[D Banerjee]

IMHO, the aver just has a sharper/higher res picture, which means the noise
is more pronounced, but so is the picture. How does it look with the
dnr/filtering turned on?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Matter" <mythtv2 at matter.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia M179 Good or Bad


> My Avermedia M179 showed up today.  I managed to get the video capture
> working with not too much work.  I don't have audio working yet.
>
> I also have a Hauppauge PVR-350 so I captured from both basically at the
> same time and have uploaded both samples in case anyone wants to compare
> them.
>
> I captured using cat /dev/videox > foo.mpg,
>
> These samples are large, about 17MB each.
>
> http://linpvr.org/avertest/aver.mpg
> http://linpvr.org/avertest/haup.mpg
>
> It's almost the end of the month and I should have plenty of bandwidth
> left but if it gets too high I may remove the files.
>
> My personal opinion is that the Aver is inferior quality, but maybe that
> is due to interference, driver, who knows.
>
> Larry
>
> > I'm thinking about picking up a M179, but I've heard
> > conflicting reports on the image qaulity they produce.
> > Does anybody have one working under mythtv yet and can
> > you comment on the quality, your setup and your
> > encoding parameters?
> >
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