[mythtv-users] OK. Which Video Capture Card is the best.

[Ben Kamen]

On 10/10/2011 7:45 PM, Keith Vance wrote:
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> On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Ben Kamen wrote:
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>> On 10/10/2011 7:09 PM, Keith Vance wrote:
>>> I have been struggling to no end to get my pcHDTV HD-5500 card to function properly on Ubuntu for way too long.
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>> Odd... I have (2) 5500's and they both have worked flawlessly with LinHES (KnoppMyth) and hopefully soon CentOS
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>>> It used to work, but I can't get it back to functioning. I can get HD channels to work great, but the analog video either is complete rubbish or it's really poor quality.
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>> Is your Comcast area even still supporting Analog? (They shut it down here except for just a small handful of channels)
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> Hmm, maybe I'm confused. I need to look at my setup again.

Also, keep in mind, the pcHDTV (IIRC) are "capture cards" in analog mode and need a lot more CPU capability vs ATSC mode (where the stream coming off is straight to disk for all intense purposes -- anyone can correct me if I have this misunderstood)...

SOoooo.. if your CPU is pretty busy, Analog reception might suffer... but also, Comcast has pretty much been on a witch-hunt to shutdown Analog.

Let me know if I can help somehow even though my setup is different.

  -Ben

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