[mythtv-users] Tuner Card w/ Svideo Inputs & PCI Sound Transfer

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:28, Joe Votour wrote:
> Well, it doesn't have analog audio left/right, but the
> Hauppauge WinTV card (model 401) supports S-Video in,
> with a 3.5mm headphone jack input (stereo), and works
> with btaudio (so no connection to a sound card is
> necessary).
> 
> The driver is fairly stable, and I don't see why 4 of
> them wouldn't work together.  The trick though is
> making sure that the cards you get have the BT878 chip
> on them, as I think some of the newer ones have newer
> Conexant chips that aren't fully supported.

Also, I believe not all of the revisions of the WInTV-PCI 401 cards may 
support btaudio.  I don't know if anyone has been able to reliably identify 
cards that will support btaudio; certainly not without examining the chips on 
the card, and even that is not always a guarantee.

4 analog tuners?  I hope the OP has an awful lot of spare CPU cycles...

-JAC

> 
> -- Joe
> 
> --- Ian Neubert <ian at ianneubert.com> wrote:
> > I'm working on setting up a large MythTV backend
> > with 4 analog tuners and 1
> > HDTV tuner. To save on PCI slots & PCs I want to
> > load them all up in one
> > box.
> > 
> > So the big questions: Are there any input cards that
> > have inputs for (at
> > least) S-video & analog audio left & right (ideally
> > audio would input from
> > an optical S/PDIF) and will send the stereo audio
> > through the PCI interface
> > to be recorded? And will this card work with 4 of
> > them in one PC?
> > 
> > I'm trying to avoid needing a seperate soundcard for
> > each tuner, and
> > consolidate everything on a single server. Any
> > thoughts?
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > 
> > ..................
> > ..................
> > ............ian...
> > ..................
> > www.ianneubert.com
> > 
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