[mythtv-users] Mpeg Encoder card

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Jeff Mottishaw <jmot at mottie.com>:

> Hello all, I'm hoping someone can help out the ignorant (myself)
>  
> I made an uneducated purchase a while back of a WinTV-D rather than
> purchasing a PVR-250/350 (to my credit I got a really good deal)
>  
> I happen to have an mpeg encoder card.. is it possible to use the tuner
> functionality of the WinTV-D card, and utilize the MPEG encoder card as
> well? 
>  
> The way I understand it I would have to use the Composite input on the
> MPEG encoder card (which would make using the Tuner Impossible) , but
> then again I just inherited this card, and know nothing about its
> workings...
You mean to have the WinTV-D capture and then a seperate MPEG encoder card do
the compression?  (I.E. you've added a PVR-x50 or similar card, or is it one of
those MPEG encoder cards used for video editing purposes?)

If you're referring to the WinTV-D as the MPEG encoder card, I don't think
that's possible.  IIRC the WinTV-D is basically a BTTV card that also has an
ATSC demodulator on it, no compression capability.  (Similar to the pcHDTV - I
wonder if someone would be able to port the pcHDTV drivers over to the WinTV-D.
 Guess it depends on if they use the same ATSC demodulator or a different one.)