[mythtv] WinTV PVR-250 (hardware mpeg encoder)

[Brian Foddy]

One added item to consider with yet another card...
PCI slots.  For instance I want to build a machine with
at least 2 capture cards.  Implying I need 2 sound cards,
now I would need 2 encoder cards also.  That's 6 PCI slots
used up right away.  Starting to get to more expensive
elite motherboards to get that many slots.

Some combo cards would really start being useful in this
conditions.


On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, kevin thayer wrote:

> So getting back to the original topic of this
> discussion (and the part that is interesting to me)
> 
> Provided that v4l(v4l2?) compatible drivers were
> available for this card, would supporting its hardware
> encoding of mpg2 be:
> 
> A) Fairly trivial, like that of mjpeg
> B) More complicated, along the lines of finding a good
> mpg2 decoding library and integrating that
> C) Really ugly
> D) I'm way off base. It will never work.
> 
> The reason I ask is that I have the card and am going
> to be writing drivers for it. I'm new to the driver
> game, so it may take awhile. I'll will write the
> driver regardless of mythtv support, but i definately
> want to make sure the driver is written in such a way
> that it works well with mythtv. 
> 
> I know it's probably evident by looking at the MythTV
> source (which i haven't checked out yet) but is there
> a subset of the v4l spec that mythtv uses? (so i could
> get a beta version out with minimal v4l support that
> worked with mythtv)
> 
> Isaac feel free to lay into me if i'm being repetitive
> :)
> 
> Thanks!
> -kevin
> 
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