[mythtv-users] Does Hauppaugh HVR 2250 work with Myth

[Paulin]

Raphael,
I though (and I may be wrong) that digital is not mpeg, it's raw.  HD is  in
the mpeg format.

As for encrypted, my understanding is Comcast doesn't encrypt their
channels.

However that would be nice if I'm wrong.

Thanks
steve

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paulin wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > The 1250 does support MPEG Encoding (requires software encoding) which
> > is why I didn't want to go with it.  Let me know how it goes with the
> > 1800.  That seems like it supports what I'm looking for.  I"m not
> > worried about analog as it goes away in 5 months and my cable provider
> > already is sending digital signals.
> >
> > steve
> >
> >
>
> My question would be, why are you so keen on getting something that has
> hardware mpg encoding when you don't care about analog? Digital TV
> signals already come pre-encoded as mpeg, so your card doesn't need to
> do any hardware encoding.... It would need to do hardware encoding if
> you wanted to encode your analog signals in hardware instead of software
> though.
> Another point about the digital signals: you may care about analog, as
> the digital channels for your cable may be mostly encrypted.
>
> Raphael
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