[mythtv-users] Looking for Capture Card Recommendations

[David Boreham]

> It has to, since it encodes video and audio into an mpeg2 stream.

Ah, right.

While we're on the subject, could you clarify exactly what
the 250 and 350 do (of course in a perfect world, the
guys paid big $$ to market the products would actually
tell the customer this information...) ?

The 250 is a capture card with a TV RF tuner and
some MPEG2 encoder chip ?

The 350 is the 250 + an RF radio tuner and + a
display device + an MPEG2 decoder chip ?

The 350's display device can make a 'proper' TV signal,
with appropriate resolution, aspect ratio, interlace and 
overscan ?

How is the 350's display output expected to be used 
in a system ? Presumably not as the primary display
device ? Or can I configure a system to boot X and
display on a 350, with some random VGA card
(on motherboard for example) to keep the BIOS happy ?

e.g. I have an EPIA motherboard. Can I plonk a
350 card in that machine and have a) hardware playback
decode and b) a decent tv out signal and c) everything
else not become broken ?

Questions, questions...

Thanks for any answers.