[mythtv-users] TV-card only (with good quality)?

[Emmanuel Allaud]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 11:43 US/Pacific, Emmanuel Allaud wrote:
>
>>> The AVerTV Studio card sucks, the new Pinnacle PCTV Rave (not sure 
>>> about other Pinnacle cards) have a new, unsupported tuner, the new 
>>> WinTV-Go (as well as offerings from MSI and Asus, along with ATI's 
>>> new TV Wonder Pro) use the cx88 chipset instead of the bt8x8, and 
>>> don't work particularly well under Linux yet. From what I gather, 
>>> the best bt8x8-based cards are the ATI TV Wonder (not the VE or the 
>>> Pro) and the Leadtek Winfast TV Deluxe XP (or something like that).
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for your reply. I will investigate the Leadtek 
>> card further (I already thought of it).
>> BTW is that easy to have 2 such cards (one for live TV and one for 
>> recording)?
>
>
> Easy, not exactly. Doable, yes.
>
> It is easier if you have two of the same card, or at least two cards 
> with the same tuner type, because the tuner module doesn't really like 
> multiple types of tuners (there are hacks around this, but that 
> detracts from the ease factor).
>
> Another factor with bt8x8 cards, is that unless they support btaudio 
> (which very few do, I'm not certain about  the Leaktek), you'll need 
> multiple sound cards to get audio from the capture card to the 
> computer in a form MythTV can use. This is one of the very nice things 
> about the PVR-x50; audio is muxed into the mpeg2 capture, so no audio 
> jumper ever needed. So either make sure you get a card that supports 
> btaudio, or be prepared to need two sound cards (you could use an 
> add-on and on-board). In either case, the setup is less than trivial 
> (especially compared to the PVR-x50).
>

OK thanks once more. I read about the issue of the sound, I will read on 
btaudio to see how it works exactly and see if the leadtek is OK with 
that. It's not really for the near future, but as you said if I want to 
add another one later, I would like to not have to buy 2 others cards ;-)
Once more thanks for your help
Bye
Manu