[mythtv-users] pcHDTV HD3000 voo doo

[Brad Fuller]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:53 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> Most importantly, the analog capture done by an HD3000 is done without 
>>> any compression or other hardware assistance so your backend has to 
>>> handle the encode to disk. This is in complete distinction to the 
>>> hardware assist which you get with the PVR cards.
>>> One of the reasons I have never bothered to even try to use analpg c 
>>> capture from my HD3000
>>>   
>>>       
>> and the resultant picture has a bit to be desired. I tried it with NTSC
>> cable, and it didn't look good.
>>     
>
> While it would be a lie to say HD-3000/5500 NTSC looks as good
> as PVR-250 NTSC, it probably looks better now than you remember.
> As of 0.20, MythTV now some hacks in to fix the default picture
> settings from the awful driver defaults..
>   
Cool. I was waiting on upgrading to .20 for the kinks to be worked out
but also to upgrade from FC4 to FC6 and get .19 running well on it first.
But, it's good to know that it looks better.
> Last I checked the HD-3000/5500 NTSC driver is missing caption
> support, so that is another reason you not want to use it if
> you have a PVR-x50. The HD-2000 NTSC driver is pretty good though,
> the HD-2000 uses a bttv chip for the analog side, which has
> probably the best v4l driver available...
>
> -- Daniel
>
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