[mythtv-users] Are either of these tuners viable for use?

[Adam Felson]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:47 +0100, Maarten wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:24, Adam Felson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 January 2005 21:27, Tim Smoot wrote:
> > > > Hey all,
> 
> > > I use bt878 cards, they'll work fine...   ...IF your CPU has the power.
> > > As it is, I _seriously_ doubt that an Eden 533 can handle it, not even
> > > when just using rtjpeg...  So no luck there.
> >
> > I never did get two bt878 cards to work without hiccups.  I upped the
> > CPU to an athlon 3000 (333mhz fsb) in the hope of running three dumb
> > cards, but couldn't even handle two.  
> 
> Hm.  That's a shame.  Here I have a perfectly working two-card bttv setup.
> System specs:
> Athlon XP 2600, FSB overclocked from 200 to 233, 256 MB Ram.
> Mythtv specs:
> Recording directlyin mpeg4, rez 480x480 at 2600 Kbps. No recording filters, only 
> deint on playback. 
> This system has been recording two channels simultaneously since a couple of 
> months. I _very_ rarely see or hear hiccups, and if I do it's often my 
> frontend that can't really cope.  
> But it needed a lot of tweaking and testing initially.
> 
> No, an Athlon 3000 should have coped fine.  Maybe you went overboard and 
> recorded at full PAL resolution, or something ?  Or your signal strength is /
> was below par (I had to buy an antenna amplifier myself).
I was running 640x480 resolution.  The was some noise on the signal, but
not much.  

> 
> > Pentium4's with their amazing FSB speed might do better.
> 
> Don't believe the hype. Pay more for less ?
800mhz on the FSB might make a huge difference on processing video.


> 
> Maarten
> 
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Adam Felson <a.f.6 at pobox.com>