OK. I just stumbled acroos a post that suggested the need for a
sound card for each capture card, and I figured I better find out
before I get that 2nd capture card.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On Apr 11, 2005 10:16 AM, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Apr 11, 2005 3:07 PM, Will Dormann <<a href="mailto:wd@pobox.com">wd@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Larry K wrote:<br>> > I am running a Hauppauge PVR-250 and I'm using my MoBo's on-board<br>> > sound. If I pick up another PVR-250, do I also have to buy a sound<br>> > card to pair with it?<br>><br>> Why would you need another sound card? The PVR-250 does the recording<br>> of the audio.<br><br>This becomes an issue if you run the output of the PVR-350 card (which<br>has the decoder on-board) back through the system's sound card. (Why<br>you'd have >1 350 in the same system I don't know ;-) ) Maybe 1 350<br>and then one or more 250's would be nice though!<br><br>With the PVR-250, the host system does the audio and video decoding,<br>and the MPEG2 stream recorded by the PVR-250 already includes the<br>audio stream, so no separate connection is required to the sound card<br>from the PVR-250.<br><br>As stated above, unless you are using a BT or similar card which<br>requires the soundcard to record the audio component of the recording,<br>no direct connection from the PVR to the soundcard is needed (unless,<br>as above, you are rerouting the *output* of the 350 back though the<br>system to enable use of SPDIF for example).<br><br>Nick<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>