[mythtv-users] Hardware Encoding

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	OK I'll bite.  What you probably want doesn't exist for less than 
a few kilobucks... like more than 10.  Encoding analog HDTV streams is too 
computationally expensive (MPEG4 or MPEG2) for a consumer item right now. 
For SDTV, PVR-250 will do it.  For *already encoded* HDTV streams 
(off-the-air in fact), it's a pcHDTV card.  Other than that, you're SOL.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, David George wrote:

> On 11/22/2004 3:00 PM, dbakker at arrayasolutions.com wrote:
>
>> Is there something that does hardware mpeg encoding to disk that anyone is 
>> using? EX: I Want my HDTV cards output converted to an mpeg using a 
>> hardware device.
>> 
> It's already MPEG2.  No need to encode.
>
> Unless, perhaps, you are talking about NTSC on the HDTV card?  If so, you 
> want to use a PVR-250 to encode NTSC to mpeg2.
>
> --
> David
>
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