[mythtv-users] Analog capture cards

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 01:32:14 pm Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>>
>> I would be interested in hearing more if people think the 1600's video
>> quality is worse than the PVR-150.  In particular, if any actual
>> quantitative data can be provided beyond "it doesn't look as good".
>>
>> In other words, I'm willing to kill a few cycles looking at the
>> register programming if someone wants to point to a quantifiable
>> difference in the output.
>
> I'd also be interested, and definitely so if the 1600 is perceived to be better
> than the PVRs. Anyone know what chip is in the 1600? What does lspci say about
> it?

Yes, I am intimately familiar with the chips in the 1600.

The decoder, MPEG encoder, and bridge are all on the same silicon (the cx23418).

Devin

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