[mythtv-users] Cable Box and Video Capture Card

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 17:38:08 UTC 2006


On 2/8/06, yan seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> I thought the PVR150 used software compression?  Does it use hardware?
> The 250 uses hardware, right?


For the most part, the PVR150 and the PVR250 are functionally identical.
The main gap between the two right now is that the ivtv driver doesn't know
how to pull out NTSC closed captions on PVR150's (or PVR500's, for that
matter.)  I imagine that ivtv will eventually be able to do that, though.

Carl Fongheiser
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