EPIA + Which PVR ?? Was [Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M]

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:52 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

> 
> To bottom-line this thread:  An "1GHz EPIA-M with a PVR-150" 
> should easily be able to watch live TV because...  
> 
> - the PVR-150 is H/W encoding to MPEG-2
> - a MythTV process is writing that encoded stream to disk
> - another process is pushing the encodes stream from disk to the
>   Unichrome MPEG-2 decoder.
> - the Unichrome driver is pumping the decoded data to the video
>   card.

I just got to ask.. because I'm confused with all the different PVR-XXX
versions out there.

PVR-150 = PVR-250 = Same Price - What gives??

But having said that, I guess my main question is, which of the PVR
cards can I use for the most fundamental of uses.

1. Watch Live TV
2. Record Live TV (Digital satellite Broadcast)
3. Have a Remote to play with.

What's the difference that you ppl are seeing?


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