[mythtv] wintv pvr 250/350 driver

J.D. Bakker bakker at thorgal.et.tudelft.nl
Fri Apr 11 18:39:14 EDT 2003


>On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:25:19AM -0400, Gerald Britton wrote:
>>  > > the website for the wintv pvr250/350 driver (that i
>>  > > wrote) is http://ivtv.sf.net
>>  >
>>  > Hmmm... were you aware you have company?
>>  >
>  > > pvr.sourceforge.net.
>>
>>  WinTV PVR != WinTV PVR 250.  The PVR is a bt878 glued together with a Kfir1
>>  mpeg encoder chip.  The PVR250 is based around the iTVC15 family of mpeg
>>  encoder chips.
>
>Wasn't looking closely enough; sorry.  Do you have opinions on the
>older card in comparison?  If I'm buying 6 of them, I have to worry
>about cost...

The older card is sort of dead, driver development-wise. Last news 
update is 17 months old.

JDB
[who thinks that a PVR250 in a two-stage encoding scheme would be 
close to perfect for MythTV]
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