[mythtv-users] Digital Capture

[Devan Lippman]

On 2/28/06, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
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> On Feb 27, 2006, at 18.23, adam wrote:
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> > I'm looking for a digital capture card (so I can record hockey) for
> > linux/mythtv. Does anybody have any recommends? I'm looking for analog
> > and digital all in one. Thanks in advance.
> Uhh... what? A "digital capture card" for recording hockey is kind of
> vague. Are you looking for an Analog-to-Digital "dumb" card that does
> all encoding in software, or a MPEG-2 hardware encoder, a DVB-T card,
> or a high-def card?
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> And with a little research, I'm sure you can find exactly what you're
> looking for.
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I think what Adam is trying to say is that recording hockey with an
analog tuner can make it hard to follow the puck during the game and
he'd like to record the program from his digital cable subscription
(probably HD format).  I've been looking for a card that will do this
for a long time but I'm not sure there'll be much until "open cable"
becomes adopted.  Of course I'd love to be wrong.  I record over
firewire now but I get an image that is worse than recording analog
with a PVR350.

Devan