[mythtv-users] PVR 250 vs 350 vs no hardware encoding; Dolby audio

[Robert Denier]

I doubt it would be easier, although it might be better in the long term 
since the 250's use almost no cpu time and you integrate the audio and 
video so you can use multiple capture cards in a pc, without requiring 
multiple sound cards.  Of course 250's cost $ and I'd rather not spend 
any on one now, so I don't know the actual difficulty in getting one 
working.  Of course if you have multiple cards I guess you would need 
two ir blasters if you controlled external tuners.  The setup for which 
might be harder.

If your having a problem getting video on that one now, it seems 
possible that the problem might carry over if you changed cards.  You 
may want to consider something like tvtime to help troubleshoot the 
problem.  That way you can test the capture card independent of myth.  
If nothing else, I'd try to figure out what has changed to cause that 
card not to work, while you waited on the other card, although I doubt 
going to a 250 is a fix in of itself.  Its most likely just a different 
set of things to figure out.

Ian Connor wrote:

> <>I still could not get the audio and now it seems it cannot detect the
> video card at all.
>
> Do you know if it would be easier to setup a PVR-250 given that it is
> my first time?
>
> Ian.
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:21:02 -0600, Robert Denier <denier at umr.edu> wrote:

>> <>It should be noted that I never got the remote working with this card,
>> but then I didn't try really hard either. I used a sound card for
>> audio, although according to lspci its standard bt878 audio, so you
>> should be able to get it using the antennae connection.. I think.. (I
>> haven't tried yet.) I used a separate ati rf remote.
>>
(Using the following card.)

>> <>
>>
>>>>I picked up an x-pert tv-pvr by v-stream on newegg
>>>>
>>>>TV TUNER KWRLD CAPTR VS-TV878RF (Qty=1,Price=$36.50)
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>