[mythtv-users] PVR-350 questions...

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Fri Aug 27 08:41:33 EDT 2004


Mark Watts wrote:

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>>>4) If I bought another tuner card (for satilite tv - probably a Pinnacle
>>>PCTV Sat CL), would MythTV be able to use the hardware acceleration part
>>>of the PVR-350 to encode the steams from the other card to disk?
>>>(basically, does it treat the PVR-350 as a hardware mpeg2 accelerator
>>>card?)
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>> Probably "nope".
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>Ok, whats the likelyhood that a Satilite TV card will have its own MPEG2 
>encode stuff?
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A satelite card will provide you with either a DVB TS or a Program 
Stream. In either case MPEG2 compatible. They receive an MPEG2 Transport 
Stream....

Rudy


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