[mythtv-users] HD Card Suggestion / Xvid hw Encoding

[Kevin Kuphal]

Wade Berrier wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I think I'm ready to take the plunge and get an HDTV card.  I was
> wondering if anyone had suggestions to what the best card is?  Seems I
> have 3 choices: pchdtv, air2pc, and dvico.
>
> I'll be using an antenna and do not have cable.  Also, my antenna is in
> my attic (neighborhood covenants) so if any of the above cards have
> tougher times with weaker signals I ought to avoid them.
>
> I also noticed that one of the dvico (Gold model?) cards has hardware
> divx/xvid support.  That would be really cool if the hd streams could be
> encoded on the fly and saved to disk as xvid.  If that's what it means,
> does Myth have support for this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.  Also, thanks for the myth software!  It's
> been rock solid for the 2 1/2 years I've been using it.
>   
I've been using the AverMedia A180.  There's a page on it in the wiki.  
It's cheap (like $80 at buy.com and other places) and works great for me 
with QAM and it also supports OTA signals.

Kevin