<div>Most likely I'll use the HD3000's for OTA HD and the PVR-500 for OTA and/or Comcast cable. In this scenario, are the vl4 drivers for the HD3000 co-resident with the 0.3.x ivtv drivers for the PVR-500 a workable solution? I kinda had hoped to use the DVB drivers because it seemed easy in FC4 (and wouldn't mind trying/testing to get DiscoveryHD or ESPNHD off of Comcast), but if vl4 will be less problematic then that's what I'll do.
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<div><br>Thanks!<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Woods</b> <<a href="mailto:greg@gregandeva.net">greg@gregandeva.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 14:59 -0400, Folashade Adeyosoye wrote:<br>> I am beginning to think I might have chosen the wrong card, I am not looking
<br>> on upgrading my Comcast cable anytime soon to digital.<br><br>In that case, if you have analog cable connected to your HD-3000 card,<br>then just use the V4L drivers. Worked for me, avoids the conflict with<br>IVTV drivers.
<br><br>> I wonder what the ratio of HD-3000 is to the PVR-500 out there, and which<br>> one would one consider the better card.<br><br>Well, I started my whole trip into MythTV land by buying an HD-3000 card<br>because I was worried about the broadcast flag stuff. I was afraid that
<br>if I didn't buy one before July 1, those cards would become illegal in<br>the US unless they had a lot of onerous DRM stuff. Turns out the US<br>Supreme Court postponed implementation of the broadcast flag rule, but I
<br>already had my HD-3000 so I set about using it. It worked OK, but the<br>more I learned about all of this stuff, the more I realized it really<br>isn't the right card for analog cable. If you aren't actually receiving
<br>HD signals, then the PVR-500 is far superior. The PVR cards have<br>hardware encoding. With the HD-3000, your CPU has to do all the work.<br>The PVR-500 also has TWO tuners, a big win on a MythTV box. So I ended<br>up switching to the PVR-500 on my master backend, and I have a slave
<br>backend that has a PVR-150. I don't even use the HD-3000 any more, I<br>will maybe try to use it one of these days for getting OTA HD channels,<br>but we only have a small handful of those in our area and I don't have
<br>an HD-capable TV yet anyway.<br><br>I think, if you are just using analog cable, that you are way better off<br>with a PVR card than an HD-3000.<br><br>--Greg<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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