[mythtv-users] CPU and Tuner recommendations

Joseph Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu May 29 23:16:05 EDT 2003


This is not strictly true... not all of the WinTV 401 cards support btaudio (audio 
extraction over the PCI bus).  The model number is deceptive; they often change 
the chipset for different revisions of the card without changing the model 
number.

-JAC



----- Original Message -----
From: Pierre-Olivier Bouchard <petecool at vl.videotron.ca>
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:32 pm
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] CPU and Tuner recommendations

> Frank Louwers wrote:
> 
> 
> A Hauppauge WinTV Go/dbx (make sure it's model number is 4?? and 
> not 7?? 
> else it won't work) or an ATI TV Wonder would be a much better 
> choice 
> than the Leadtek, as with those, you can send the audio data over 
> the 
> PCI bus, instead of through a separate sound card. It can be useful 
> if 
> you want to someday add more tuners to the system, as you would be 
> losing one PCI slot because of the Leadtek that can't send data 
> over PCI.
> 
> Pete



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