[mythtv-users] Kworld KW-LTV7131RF Question

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 3/1/07, Lonnie Borntreger <myth at borntreger.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm looking for something cheap to add a couple more tuners to my
> backends, which are currently all PVR-500s.  I saw the Kworld KW-LTV7131RF
> and liked its price point, and noticed in the MythTV wiki that it should
> work just fine.
>
> However, it says "Real-Time MPEG 4/2/1 Encoding", but I can't tell if that
> is on-chip, or in its Windows software.  I don't want to deal with software
> encoding... my backends don't have that kind of horsepower.
>

That card is based on the Philips SAA7131 chip.  It's a simple frame-grabber
card, so you would be using software encoding.

Carl Fongheiser
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