[mythtv-users] nova-t hardware encoder?

[Steele Price]

None of the Hauppauge cards have hadware ENcoders, the Nexus has a hardware
DEcoder.
Hardware ENcoding is unnecessary since you are saving an already encoded
stream.  Decoding isn't supported yet (at least not that anyone is
claiming).

The Nova has no Decoder it is the budget board, the Nexus has the decoder
which may come in handy in the future when transcoding to something else and
reducing cpu time.

I just bought a Nexus hoping for precisely this; decoding support to speed
up transcoding to xvid.
As soon as I get it massive testing of MythTV transcoding, etc. will take
place then edits/patches to better support things to follow.  DVB is the
future for sure, analog recording is so passe... :-)

Steele Price
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-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Herbie Hopkins
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:40 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] nova-t hardware encoder?


I'm considering buying a hauppauge dvb card to receive free to air
terrestrial tv here in the UK. Could someone please clarify for me
weather the nova-t has a built in hardware mpeg encoder? I can't seem to
make head nor tail of the information on the hauppauge website. Also
what exactly is the difference between the nova/nova-t and nexus cards?

Herbie.