[mythtv-users] Swapping PCI cards kills X

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Devin Heitmueller
<dheitmueller at kernellabs.com> wrote:
> Actually the HVR-1600 can operate as a frame grabber, and does present
> an ALSA sound card device to Linux in recent kernels to handle cases
> where the user needs to bypass the encoder.  Example usage patterns
> include video game consoles where they want to avoid latency or low
> end platforms where they don't intend to do any recording and want to
> avoid the cost of MPEG decoding in software.

Oh, I had missed that part of it.  I need to go re-read myself it
seems :)  Thanks for the correction.

> That said, you are correct that nobody using the device for MythTV
> would use it in this model, but it can create some confusion for users
> who run "arecord -l" and see the HVR-1600 offering up an ALSA capture
> device

Right.  That would be a non-suggested mode for MythTV use given the
availability of the MPEG stream :)  Sorry to confuse though.