[mythtv-users] many questions from a MythTV newbie

[Warren]

Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> On 3/29/06, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> You must understand that the hd3000 does not go a good job in NTSC mode,
>> as it has no hardware encode/decode capability. You have to use the box
>> and software to deal with the signal...The Hauppauge cards, on the other
>> hand have that built in, and therefor feed the same digital stream as
>> the HD card does in ATSC to the bus.
>> Therefore my small/quiet Via SP13000 can record 3 simultaneous programs:
>> 2 in SD from a PV500 and 1 ATSC from the HD3000. Note that this
>> motherboard does not do full HD... it is limited to 1024x1024 on TV out
>> (but the internal video to monitor will do 1980x 1080 and uses Xvmc.
>>     
>
> Thank you very much for clarifying this, I completely missed it. 
> Judging by the DViCO marketing bullet: Includes MPEG encoder for
> analog TV/video recording, I take it FusionHDTV card will be much
> easier on resources for NTSC, if I want the ability to decode ATSC or
> NTSC with a single card.
>
> Thanks for mentioning that.
> ~ Daniel
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You do realize that to run NTSC and ATSC on the same card you have to
unload the drivers, reflash the firmware into the card then load the
other set of drivers?  ATSC is captured by DVB drivers, not V4L drives
like NTSC.

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