[mythtv-users] New motherboard, no PCI

Warren warren-lists at icruise.com
Tue Apr 18 14:23:15 UTC 2006


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Warren wrote:
>
>   
>> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 8:13 am, Warren wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I am getting a prototype of a new motherboard, which, if it makes it
>>>> into mass production could be an amazing FE board.  I would  
>>>> however like
>>>> to see if it can make a good backend as well.  The problem is  
>>>> that it
>>>> has no PCI slots.  Only 2 miniPCI (actually 3 but 1 is used) and  
>>>> 2 PCMCIA.
>>>>
>>>> What are my choices for SDTV and HDTV capture given this  
>>>> configuration?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> If it has USB, then you could go with a plextor convertx. I'm not  
>>> aware
>>> of any minipci capture boards.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, the spec does mention 4xUSB2.0 headers.  Does the plextor do  
>> hardware compression?  I have not worked with any cards besides the  
>> Hauppauge and the pcHDTV3000, so I know nothing of the USB capture  
>> devices.
>>     
>
> The Plextor has H/W compression, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DiVX, but  
> Myth only supports MPEG-4 at this time.
>
> The MPEG-4 does look very good though, as long as you don't want to  
> use a MediaMVP and accept the fact that you'll have to transcode to  
> burn a DVD, and can't play it back with most XvMC setups, it saves a  
> lot of space.
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Since the board in question has Intel 915GM graphics, XvMC is not an
option anyway.   I'll take a look at the plextor and the drivers. 
Thanks for your help!

W
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