[mythtv-users] Recording/live-tv video quality (aka do PVR150 encoders suck?)

[Gabe Rubin]

On Feb 2, 2008 5:42 AM, Scott Traurig <straurig at comcast.net> wrote:

> It seems this is a dead horse. The only thing left would be to migrate to
> the s-video input but that is not possible with my current setup. Nor does
> any viable alternative suggest itself as a replacement card at this time. I
> guess I can only wait for ATI to get some Linus drivers done.
>

You may have missed my email in the huge pile of emails, but you can
purchase an s-video to composite adapter for under $5 (and I believe
one comes with many of the pvr-x50 cards):
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=X1j&resnum=0&q=s+video+to+composite+adapter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf

Might be worth a try.  In fact, that is what I just switched over to
(now I just have to figure out why after 30 minutes it switches back
to the tuner input rather than keeping it on the svideo input).