[mythtv] an architectural issue for future releases

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:40:18 -0400


On Sunday 13 October 2002 04:47 am, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > There aren't any cheap hardware encoding cards that are supported in
> > linux, aside from a few that do hardware mjpeg compression.
>
> Hi Isaac,
>
> Put away that analogue thinking.  ;-) What about DVB cards? - they
> directly deliver the transmitted mpeg2 data stream.
>
> I do understand its hard to get excited about that with no DVB in the US.

Yeah.  Would would be nice, but like you said, doesn't work in the US..  If 
someone wants to add support for them, that'd be great, though.

Isaac