[mythtv-users] Hauppauge 401 or PVR 250?

[Kelly Grigg]

I'm not familiar with the 401, but, the 250 had hardware compression 
which is nice for taking a load off your cpu...

Drivers for this card via ivtv are pretty good...

K

On Mar 24, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Scott Apple wrote:

> Hello
>  
> I'm getting ready to setup a Mythtv box but I'm stuck as to what card 
> would be best to go with. Some people say that 401 is much easier to 
> setup while the 250 can sometimes have issues. I'm relatively new when 
> it comes to Linux (ie: I'm not going to be editing source code anytime 
> soon etc). So basically I wanted to know which card is better. I'm not 
> going to be trying to do anything too fancy with this box, just watch 
> live tv pause it and record shows every so often.
>  
> The box I'll be running it on is a 1.7ghz p4 with 768rdram and a 
> soundblaster live.
>   
> The 401 card seems to be about 50$ cheaper then the 250 but if the 250 
> is what I need to get the job done right then I'll go for that.
>  
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
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