On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:cweisiger@i-55.com">cweisiger@i-55.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:cweisiger@i-55.com">cweisiger@i-55.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Could i get away with just using a basic video capture card,<br>or do i need to use a tv tuner card(ex: pvr-250, pvr-150)<br>with the cable box, in cases when myth needs to change channels<br>on the cable box.</blockquote>
<div><br><br>You're probably going to want a PVR-250 or PVR-150, but not for the reason you think. You'll probably want it so that you get the hardware MPEG-2 compression. The PVR cards won't change channels on the cable box, though; you'll need an IR blaster or serial connection to accomplish that.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I keep thinking that i could just use a regular basic video capture<br>card for this purpose.
</blockquote><div><br>You can definitely do this, but you'll have higher CPU utilization during recording, and you may have trouble getting it set up properly; it's not always easy to get the ivtv drivers and the bttv drivers to cooperate.
<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br><br></div></div><br>