[mythtv-users] iomega buz card

[Nick Tan]

I used an Iomega Buz for a while.  It worked quite well and the picture 
quality was good (only with high bitrates though), but the size of the 
resulting files were huge.  I think it was about 7GB/hour.  I guess you 
could transcode them down, but I went and bought a PVR250MCE instead.

It was a while ago, but I think it was a bit tricky to get going.  You 
need to use the zoran driver with video4linux, but I can't remember 
what I had to do specifically to get it working.  Look at 
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ for good information though.

As for 'glue code', I didn't need any (aside from a channel changer 
script to control my cable box).  MythTV support MJPEG cards directly, 
so just select that as your capture source.

Hope this helps.

Nick

On 29/04/2005, at 9:45 AM, Robert Anderson wrote:

> My current setup uses a cheap bt878 tuner card and gets descent
> picture quality, at best. I have digital cable also, so I use the
> cable box as an external tuner. I was thinking of getting a PVR-150,
> or 250, but then I thought, all I really want is hardware compression,
> so why not use a buz card? I searched the list and found a post from
> Jonathan Oexner:
>
> "I use an Iomega Buz card for the
> capture, an X-10 RF remote to control the sucker and a Redrat IR
> transmitter to control my "external tuner"  ;)  Works like a charm,
> although I had to write a bit of glue code to get everything playing
> together nicely.
> "
>
> Jonathan (or anyone else who can help): What sort of "glue code" are
> you talking about? Scripting? Programs? Anything you can share about
> this type of setup is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Rob Anderson
> riznob at gmail.com
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