[mythtv-users] Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick

[Ben Dailey]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Carl L. Gilbert
<clg-social at rigidsoftware.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:40 -0400, Raphael wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, in all honesty I don't know.  I just set it up as described in
>> my wiki page, checked the recording profile and use it to record.
>> Beyond that, it just works as I need it to - record what I tell you to
>> record, when I tell you to record it...
>>
>> I've run MythTV since .17 and have never really cared much about how
>> it recorded this in what format, as long as 'it just works'.  Aside
>> from patching the code to allow me 2 instances of V4L settings, I
>> haven't done much customization or digging into MythTV.  I've found
>> most of the default 'technical' settings 'just work'.

> This card has no hardware encoder in it. It simply dumps the digital
> mpeg2 transport stream to your hard disk.
> It's really not that amazing, and not too astonishing to achieve such a
> feat.
> I've had one running since last November. The drivers I installed don't
> have support for analog reception. It also does not pick up QAM. This is
> OTA ATSC only.
> HTH
> Raphael
> _______________________________________________
>
> Hmm, so what do I need with an encoder?  Since the digital signals are in
> MPEG format I only need an encoder if I am watching analog?
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> CL

Carl,

Correct you will only need to encode using the main cpu if you are
using the analog tuner/capture portion of the stick. If you just use
the ATSC/Digital portion the devices works almost exactly like a
network device it gets the mpeg stream(s) off the air and dumps them
to disc using a very negligible amount of cpu.

Now for a question of my own, has any one tried/is it possible to
capture from ATSC and the analog tuner/capture simultaneously?

HTH,
Ben