[mythtv-users] Hercules Smart TV Stereo

Örn Hansen orn.hansen at swipnet.se
Wed Jun 11 23:30:55 EDT 2003


onsdag 11 juni 2003 21:34 skrev Joseph A. Caputo:
>
> The MPEG-1/2 encoding ability advertised is NOT hardware-based.  It is
> Windows software that is shipped with the card.  This card is only listed
> on the European web site, but supposedly comes in PAL, NTSC & SECAM. 
> According to their website it is BT878-based, so it *should* work under
> Linux, and also with Myth.  However, you may want confirmation as I've
> never seen anyone mention this card before.
>
> The only cards that do hardware-based MPEG encoding & are supported under
> Linux & MythTV are the Hauppauge PVR-250 & PVR-350.  Even at that, the
> Linux driver (ivtv) is still an alpha version.
>

  Well, I've got a haupauge card already and the only reason I was looking at 
an alternative was that I don't get any sound with my recordings :-(.  I've 
tried the mute option and all that, but no go.  It's a bummer, aplay doesn't 
work either.

Orn
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