[mythtv-users] What about this? Hardware mpeg encoding, cheap!

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Monday 23 February 2004 08:11, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> Quoting Patrick Reynolds <reynolds at cs.duke.edu>:
> > Price: 785kr ($112) was the best I could find... not including shipping
> > it to the US.
> >
> > The PVR-250 still looks like the better bet.
>
> Or the M179, which usually runs $80ish.
>
> PVR250s are normally more expensive, unless you get one of the eBay special
> OEM boards for $88.  Although I would pay more for a "known working" board
> than an unknown.
>
> Might possibly be worth it for some of the European Myth users to
> investigate it.  It seems that there are two types of MPEG encoders
> supported by MCE - One will work with ivtv, one currently won't, but some
> people are working on support for that type (1-2 people on the ivtv list
> are playing with Avermedia M150 boards, which are the "other" type.)

Just FYI: also of the "other" type, and which I have two of here at work (in 
HP MCE boxes) are the Emuzed Maui cards.


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