[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] pcHDTV-5500 as NTSC Receiver

[Ben Kamen]

On 1/18/2010 2:08 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> Not sure what you mean by "bad". It's a simple frame grabber, which means you
> have to do compression in software, which with Myth limits you to only a
> couple of codecs, that are not the best.

I heard the tuner quality wasn't so fabulous..

But your comment reminded me of something I had forgot -- no MPEG encoder on board..

So I think I'll look for some used PVR-500's.

> But it works, I have a 3000 I use with XAWTV on a non-Myth machine, it
> certainly does what it's supposed to do, it's nice to be able to get analog
> and digital using only one slot.

There aren't enough channels here to warrant 2 HDTV cards as of yet.

Thanks for your reply though!

  -Ben