[mythtv-users] Fastest file system

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Sun Sep 18 06:48:56 UTC 2005


On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:22:47PM +1000, ffrr wrote:
> Yes.  There are indeed DVB cards that also include svideo in, but they 
> have all the extra circuitry for analog video capture, and using them in 

Not really; many of the DVB cards use BT878 or CX2388x chips as the PCI
interface, which give them analog video capture for free.

However they don't include analog tuners, so only svideo/composite
capture is possible. And for some cards the Linux dvb drivers does not
support analog capture.

> that mode, the cpu will be taxed, just as for other analog cards.

True.

Hamish
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