[mythtv-users] PVR-250 + pcHDTV, myth 0.16, initial setup problem bttv called with NTSC videomode

[Cory Papenfuss]

> Yup. I think the only major functional difference between the two is that the
> HD-2000 is a bttv card in NTSC mode, the HD-3000 is a cx88 card in NTSC mode.
> I had no problems viewing NTSC material w/my HD-2000 (outside Myth).
>
 	I thought it was a BTTV-based one, but now I see you're right. 
There appear to be a whole slew of new video decoder chips that have some 
more advanced features than the old bt8xx chips.  As I've recently found 
out, the SAA7115 on the PVR-[23]50s have a "2/4 (NTSC/PAL) adaptive comb 
filter," and 9-bit ADC's.  The CX23883 has 10-bit ADCs and possibly a bit 
fancier comb filter.

>>  	Maybe the killer vid card would be to add an Oren chip to a
>> PVR-150.  If the CX25840 chip could also get/put data from the HD Oren
>> decoder, it would be a combo SD/HD MPEG2 capture card.  Probably a bit
>> too spiffy to hope for.... :)
>
> That would definitely be nifty... Or if that isn't entirely feasible, maybe a
> PVR-500 with one input for HD, one for SD... You can always hope!
>
 	It really wouldn't be all that complicated.  Once you've got the 
hardware set up and laid out, it's mostly a driver issue.  Of course, I'm 
not sure about having two chips on the same digital interface.  They may 
not play nice together.

-Cory