[mythtv-users] Right capture card to purchase

Sun May 13 12:47:01 UTC 2007

Henrik Beckman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a PVR 150 and its ok, not 100% the quality of my DVB-T SD card 
> but good enough (took me an hour or to to get used to it). The PVR-150 
> Low profile might actualy be a 250 card, I´m very insure of this but 
> go look on the IVTV mailing list if it´s important.
>
> On my HTPC I had to set pci-latency to a higher value in bios and then 
> lower the pvr-150 (mce edition) to avoid DMA errors while using 
> multiple tuners. I think this DMA issue is gone in the latest 10 
> drivers and also is a none issue with the pvr 500 card.
FYI - This *is* still an issue with 0.10.1 driver.  I have a pvr-500 and 
a pvr150.  I had to modify Myth source and fiddle with the latency to 
get the driver to *not* crash the system eventually, though I still get 
the DMA errors. 
>
> Also note that using both DVB-T and and the pvr-150 might need a bit 
> of work since the  DVB-T drivers  seems to include a broken ivtv 
> driver,  this is only an issue if your dvb card isn´t supported 
> directly in your kernel.
>
> If you have a new dvb-t card that not is in yoyr kernel simply do the 
> following when installing the linuxtv drivers.
> make menuconfig, unselect video4linux, unselect everything except your 
> dvb-t card, make, make install.
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On 5/12/07, *Mitch Gore* <mitchell.gore at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mitchell.gore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     All of the pvr150's on newegg's site are virtually the same.  The
>     difference being low profile, FM tuners, or bundled items.
>
>     I got the pvr150MCE because it came with the nice MCE remote. 
>
>     Mitchell
>
>
>     On 5/11/07, *Rage321* <rage321 at optonline.net
>     <mailto:rage321 at optonline.net>> wrote:
>
>         Do you need a low profile version?  IR Blaster with remote? 
>         Without?
>          
>         I concur that the pvr150 has great quality.  I've used two
>         different types, 1045 -
>         http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html
>         <http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html> and
>         1086
>         http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcelp.html
>          
>         More info -
>         http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/compare/compare_pvr.html
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         *From:* mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>         <mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>
>         [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>         <mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>] *On Behalf Of *Jason
>         Rottman
>         *Sent:* Friday, May 11, 2007 9:19 PM
>         *To:* Discussion about mythtv
>         *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Right capture card to purchase
>
>         Which pvr-150 would you recommend?  A quick search on newegg
>         for "hauppauge" returns several pvr-150 at several varied
>         prices.  Do some have better specs than other?  I dont really
>         care about an FM tuner.  Thank you!
>
>         -Jasn
>
>         On 5/11/07, *Mitch Gore* <mitchell.gore at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mitchell.gore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             A pvr150 offers great quality.  If you put the picture on
>             a HDTV it wont look the best but that is with any source. 
>             If you want hdtv, recording hd will look great but if a hd
>             capture card is used to record SD content that will look
>             way worse then a 150 as the hd card will be a simple
>             framegrabber. 
>
>             Mitchell
>
>             On 5/11/07, *Jason Rottman* < jrottman at gmail.com
>             <mailto:jrottman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Hello!
>
>                 It has been observations that the pvr-150 does not
>                 deliver the same video quality as if the tv was
>                 directly connected to the normal cable line.  I was
>                 wonding if anyone had any suggestions on other cards
>                 to buy that can deliver better quality?  I am
>                 currently using Charter digital cable, and they offer
>                 a few HD-channels.  If I get an HD capture card, can I
>                 use that same card on the channels that are not HD? 
>                 Do I need to be concerned about anything because it is
>                 digital cable?  We have other tvs that connect
>                 directly to the cable line, rather than throught the
>                 cable box.  The only different is that these tv's can
>                 not access the on-demand stuff.  Thank you for any
>                 suggestions you can provide!
>
>                 -Jason
>
>                 _______________________________________________
>                 mythtv-users mailing list
>                 mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>                 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>
>             _______________________________________________
>             mythtv-users mailing list
>             mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>             http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>
>         _______________________________________________
>         mythtv-users mailing list
>         mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>         http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     mythtv-users mailing list
>     mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>     http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>