[mythtv-users] PVR250 and PAL

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 15:17, Nick Tan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am thinking about getting a PVR250 card for use in my mythbox, but I
> just want to make sure that the tuner works for PAL as well as NTSC.
> (I'll be buying it in the USA, but using it in Australia).
>
> Would anyone be able to confirm that the tuner on the card supports PAL
> signals?

I can confirm in the negative. Tuners are either PAL or NTSC only, not both. 
The SVideo and composite inputs can do both no problem, but tuners can not.

> Also, am I correct in assuming that the hardware MPEG-2 encoding will
> be a lot better, quality wise, than the software mpeg4 or RTjpeg that
> myth uses?

Generally, I believe so, but not necessarily. Many dumb frame grabbers are 
cheap, including poor quality tuners. A really good bttv card should 
theoretically be able to give you a picture as good as a PVR-x50. Both the 
non-ivtv and non-pcHDTV cards I've used produced picture quality inferior to 
that of my PVR-x50 cards though.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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