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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 10:36 -0400, Michael Lynch wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Wow! So how does this compare with the HVR-1600 from Hauppauge?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm confused as I thought USB was not well supported in mythTV? You seem to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> be running a brand new USB capture device thats working fine for you? What</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> more would one need than this device (hardware-wise) to do PVR on his PC?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> CL</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm not sure about how it compares to the HVR-1600 since I don't own</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">one, but after a bit of reading and some previous knowledge, I was</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">able to get the stick running fine. I posted the link to my setup in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a previous reply, but I'll add it again just for fun...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Lynchmv#Pinnacle_PCTV_HD_USB_Pro_Stick_notes">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Lynchmv#Pinnacle_PCTV_HD_USB_Pro_Stick_notes</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I can record shows, watch live tv and do everything that MythTV does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">with regular tuners with this nifty little USB stick. It is the 4th</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">tuner in my system and I got it really just to see if it would work</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and to see what OTA HD channels I could pick up out in the sticks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The little antenna that came with it picks up ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and a couple of the sub channels also. Overall I'm happy with it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">considering I only dropped $45 on it.</FONT>
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Thats great. I'm really astonished. Its so inexpensive and USB. Does it do hardware MPEG encoding? or are you encoding in some other fashion? The website seems to imply it will do MPEG4 encoding but says that is a trial for versions less than "ultimate." Makes me thing that is software encoding. I really don't mind software encoding if it makes the hardware MUCH cheaper.<BR>
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Thanks again,<BR>
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