[mythtv-users] Has anybody tried AverMedia M179 card instead ofPVR250?

[Kaushik Mallick]

Shucks! I guess there is no way to get around it,
then.
Thanks for your pointer.
-Kaushik

--- "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf
> Of Kaushik Mallick
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:02 PM
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Has anybody tried
> AverMedia M179 card instead
> > ofPVR250?
> >
> >
> > Looks like there is moderate success with the
> PVR250
> > in MythTV. I was wondering if I can use a smilar
> card
> > Avermedia M179. According to this link at
> >
> ivtv(http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#_jump03),
> > "the AVerMedia M179 AVerTV uses a Sony SBX1637
> audio
> > module which is not supported by the current
> driver so
> > while you can capture video, you get no audio
> yet".
> >
> > Did anybody have any success in using a M179 as a
> > hardware mpeg encoder with MythTV? Any comments or
> > ideas how to get the sound working? Can I use an
> > external cable to get the sound from the M179 to
> the
> > onboard sound port of the motherboard?
> 
> No, an audio patch cable won't work with a hardward
> MPEG encoder board, as
> the audio needs to be part of the muxed MPEG stream.
>  Even if you could use
> the board to capture video with Myth, the Myth
> software won't even try to
> record audio from your sound card if you tell it you
> have a hardware MPEG
> encoder.
> 
> -JAC
> 
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