[mythtv-users] PVR-250 quality

[Craig Longman]

jungle at saphire.dk wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was wondering if anyone could point me to sources that describe the
>quality of the mentioned card, and MythTV's support for it, and if it
>really is worth the price of it. Anyone with any experience with it?
>
no sources for quality, but imho it is very good.  the dnr makes the 
sometimes noisy picture i have much less grainy, the compressed image 
quality is very good, the sound quality is fine (for a stereo only 
signal) and when i'm capturing i use next to no cpu (on an athlon 1GHz). 
 the file sizes are larg(ish) for the time being, but i like that, 
record at the best image possible.

the driver is in alpha/pre-alpha state, but it works quite well for me. 
 sometimes it gets stuffed up, but it hasn't really been a problem for 
me yet.  mythtv supports it quite well now, except for the things that 
aren't ready in the driver yet: you can't change the image quality, 
audio quality, colour/contrast/brightness (at least not without 
recompiling something).

and i like the remote, except it also doesn't play too well with the 
keyboard layout default in myth, but joseph and i working on doing 
something to improve that.

overall, i'm pleased with it.

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();