[mythtv-users] Firewire, framegrabbers, and Nvidia (was Re: Current wisdom on PVR-150/250/350/500

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Apr 19 01:03:22 UTC 2006


On 04/18/2006 10:33 AM, Scott Doty wrote:

>Heh...which brings us back to the concept of framegrabbers...
>
>Specifically, I've got an Nvidia EVGA 7800GTX that apparently has the hardware
>for composite video capture, which is exactly what I need.  Alas, the Nvidia
>binary blob doesn't support that part of the hardware
>  
>
...

>So the question becomes:  What's a good choice for a composite framegrabber
>with good quality?
>

Framegrabber and good quality don't usually fit together well.  If the 
manufacturer is providing a framegrabber, it's probably to try to 
undercut encoders like PVR-x50's/500's, so quality normally suffers 
accordingly.

>  I have a Hauppauge WinTV in my old workstation, but it's
>5V, and the 5V PCI slot on this new motherboard is covered by the
>(double-sized) Nvidia card... so I'm running mythbackend on my old
>workstation, and viewing on this new workstation.
>
Aren't the Hauppauge PVR-150's (and maybe PVR-500's) 3.3V capable?

Mike


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