[mythtv-users] Hardware capture card recommendations

[Jeff C]

At 04:24 PM 5/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:

FWIW I'm using a PCR 250 with Myth and am VERY happy, it captures both 
video and audio with great quality and almost no load on the system.

Haven't used the remote yet at all.
-Jeff

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>I admit to being an extreme newbie with MythTv (as in never got it
>running on my system yet, failed AIMS bt848 card), but was wondering if
>anyone could recommend a good capture card for me.  Viewing is not
>really important to me as this eventually will be going in my server and
>locked into the closet.  I want to capture to full DVD quality NTSC
>format for use with a DVD-R drive and would rather not kill the CPU and
>PCI bus in the process.
>
>I have up to about $200 or so to spend.
>
>I've heard a lot about the pvr250 (and I really could use a good remote
>with this, but not required) and that it is about $150 retail (I live in
>Michigan,USA).  Builtin sound capture is a must for me (not enough spare
>PCI slots to be adding sound cards too -- all used for IDE controllers).
>~   If the drivers need serious polishing, I can wait a little too and
>even use another box with M$ Winblows to get my immediate needs taken
>care of (capturing Farscape from VHS before I run out and have to start
>recycling the tapes).
>
>I can attest that the ADS Instant DVD is junk, even in Windows with
>their drivers (over a two hour span, the audio sync drifted more than
>20sec from the start), so this is going back ASAP.
>
>Any other recomendations?  What about prices and recommended places of
>purchase?  If online order, could the developers get a little back from
>a referal?  I would prefer to stay away from an ATI capture card if
>possible (bad experiences with the All-in-Wonders cards in the past).
>
>
>Other hardware on the intended box is as follows:
>
>Shuttle AK32 mobo (5 PCI slots, onboard 2xATA100, onboard sound)
>AMD TB1700+ w/ a huge fan
>2x 2 channel ATA133 controllers
>Diamond V550 TNT1 w/ TVout (not important to me, is backend only)
>Realtek 8139c NIC (will eventually be replaced with an Intel Gigabit)
>2x WD 80GB ATA100 8MB cache HDD (/home as a swRAID 1 and /data as a
>swRAID 0)
>Fugitsu 11GB HDD (ATA66 with /boot, /var/mail, /)
>LS-120 untested in this machine
>ZIP-100 untested in this machine
>Sony 40x CDRW
>Vivastar DVD-R/RAM
>Artec DVD-ROM
>
>In case you did the math and realized I only have 6 master IDE
>connections, the LS-120,ZIP,DVD-ROM,DVD-R/RAM are sharing two of the
>channels, so no hard-disk speed degredation.
>CPU usage idles at under 1%, but spikes a lot from the sw raid - nothing
>severe.  I also plan to transcode some of the recordings to MPEG4 later
>on with this same box as well as some purchased DVDs.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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