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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:40 -0400, Raphael wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Well, in all honesty I don't know. I just set it up as described in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> my wiki page, checked the recording profile and use it to record.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Beyond that, it just works as I need it to - record what I tell you to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> record, when I tell you to record it...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've run MythTV since .17 and have never really cared much about how</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> it recorded this in what format, as long as 'it just works'. Aside</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> from patching the code to allow me 2 instances of V4L settings, I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> haven't done much customization or digging into MythTV. I've found</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> most of the default 'technical' settings 'just work'.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">This card has no hardware encoder in it. It simply dumps the digital </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mpeg2 transport stream to your hard disk.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It's really not that amazing, and not too astonishing to achieve such a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">feat.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've had one running since last November. The drivers I installed don't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">have support for analog reception. It also does not pick up QAM. This is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OTA ATSC only.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">HTH</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Raphael</FONT>
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Hmm, so what do I need with an encoder? Since the digital signals are in MPEG format I only need an encoder if I am watching analog?<BR>
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Thanks again,<BR>
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CL
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