[mythtv-users] Best PCI HD capture card?

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Arthur H. Hamm
Jr.<badnewseveryone at izzy.net> wrote:
>> What do you mean by "raw output" on the HD-5500?
>
> I currently have a pair of WinTV-PVR-250's so I am used to having my
> recordings in MPEG compression. I understand the HD-5500 does not let myth
> control the pixel size or the bit rate of the recording. I have been told to
> expect HD recordings in the 15 GB per hour range. This uses much more hard
> drive space, more hard drive bandwidth and more CPU to play and record.
>

I do not think any direct digital capture card does that. These just
take the network feed and save it into a file.

John