[mythtv-users] Firewire vs HD-PVR

[Ronald Frazier]

> Just wondering what people are doing if they have a working Firewire
> box and a HD-PVR.  They will need to be setup in a recording group
> since they share the same source, but I am wondering if people always
> use the HD-PVR once they have it in place, or if they use Firewire
> when it works and then HD-PVR for channels that don't work through
> Firewire.

Although I don't have a HD-PVR, I have been contemplating getting one,
and my thinking was that it would better just to put everything
through the HD-PVR. It would simplify the configuration, it's not as
if the HD-PVR would have something else it could do if you freed it
up, the compression should be good enough that I wouldn't expect to
see any artifacts from the recompression, and you'd end up with
smaller files since the HD-PVR does h264 (which should be compressed
smaller than the MPEG-2 you'd receive through firewire).

-- 
Ron