[mythtv-users] best hardware encoder?

Kichigai Mentat kichigai at comcast.net
Wed Mar 1 05:54:16 UTC 2006


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On Feb 28, 2006, at 01.18, Nick Bartos wrote:

> From what I can tell, most of the hardware mpeg2 decoders are using  
> the
> same chips (cx23416), so I am wondering if there are any quality  
> reasons
> to go with any one in particular.
>
> I used a PVR 150 for a bit and now I have an adaptec AVC-2010.  One  
> thing
> I noticed is that the PVR 150 loaded cx25840 firmware which I  
> thought was
> a separate audio chip, wheras the AVC-2010 didn't.
The PVR-150 is a pretty good card. At $99, I managed to snag a pretty  
decent card that has been more than satisfactory.
>
> As far as I can tell, none of these do deinterlacing during encoding,
> which I thought would be preferable to doing it in software later.
I don't think any of the hardware encoders do real-time  
deinterlacing. Using my XBox as a front-end, I've never had a problem  
with Myth's on-board deinterlacing filters.
>
> Ideas/thoughts?
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