[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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