[mythtv-users] Right capture card to purchase

[Henrik Beckman]

Hi,

I have a PVR 150 and its ok, not 100% the quality of my DVB-T SD card but
good enough (took me an hour or to to get used to it). The PVR-150 Low
profile might actualy be a 250 card, I´m very insure of this but go look on
the IVTV mailing list if it´s important.

On my HTPC I had to set pci-latency to a higher value in bios and then lower
the pvr-150 (mce edition) to avoid DMA errors while using multiple tuners. I
think this DMA issue is gone in the latest 10 drivers and also is a none
issue with the pvr 500 card.

Also note that using both DVB-T and and the pvr-150 might need a bit of work
since the  DVB-T drivers  seems to include a broken ivtv driver,  this is
only an issue if your dvb card isn´t supported directly in your kernel.

If you have a new dvb-t card that not is in yoyr kernel simply do the
following when installing the linuxtv drivers.
make menuconfig, unselect video4linux, unselect everything except your dvb-t
card, make, make install.

/Henrik


On 5/12/07, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All of the pvr150's on newegg's site are virtually the same.  The
> difference being low profile, FM tuners, or bundled items.
>
> I got the pvr150MCE because it came with the nice MCE remote.
>
> Mitchell
>
> On 5/11/07, Rage321 <rage321 at optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Do you need a low profile version?  IR Blaster with remote?  Without?
> >
> > I concur that the pvr150 has great quality.  I've used two different
> > types, 1045 - http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html  and
> > 1086 http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcelp.html
> >
> > More info - http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/compare/compare_pvr.html
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:
> > mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Jason Rottman
> > *Sent:* Friday, May 11, 2007 9:19 PM
> > *To:* Discussion about mythtv
> > *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Right capture card to purchase
> >
> > Which pvr-150 would you recommend?  A quick search on newegg for
> > "hauppauge" returns several pvr-150 at several varied prices.  Do some have
> > better specs than other?  I dont really care about an FM tuner.  Thank you!
> >
> > -Jasn
> >
> > On 5/11/07, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > A pvr150 offers great quality.  If you put the picture on a HDTV it
> > > wont look the best but that is with any source.  If you want hdtv, recording
> > > hd will look great but if a hd capture card is used to record SD content
> > > that will look way worse then a 150 as the hd card will be a simple
> > > framegrabber.
> > >
> > > Mitchell
> > >
> > >  On 5/11/07, Jason Rottman < jrottman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > It has been observations that the pvr-150 does not deliver the same
> > > > video quality as if the tv was directly connected to the normal cable line.
> > > > I was wonding if anyone had any suggestions on other cards to buy that can
> > > > deliver better quality?  I am currently using Charter digital cable, and
> > > > they offer a few HD-channels.  If I get an HD capture card, can I use that
> > > > same card on the channels that are not HD?  Do I need to be concerned about
> > > > anything because it is digital cable?  We have other tvs that connect
> > > > directly to the cable line, rather than throught the cable box.  The only
> > > > different is that these tv's can not access the on-demand stuff.  Thank you
> > > > for any suggestions you can provide!
> > > >
> > > > -Jason
> > > >
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