[mythtv-users] ATSC Capture Reccomendations
Chad
masterclc at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 18:13:08 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Jon <jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I've been moseying around the interweb looking for a new
> capture card. First, I went to
> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:HDTV_capture_cards>
> then, after that, I started scouring TigerDirect/Newegg/Frys
> (outpost.com)/BestBuy looking for cards.
>
> I want something relatively cheap (cost, not quality), as I'm
> planning on spending under $250 to upgrade my MBE. I want to put a
> new HDD and an ATSC card. I would sort-of like to have a hardware SD
> encoder available, but that's not a deal breaker, as I've been using
> frame-grabbers since 0.17 without any problems (well, other than a
> TON of audio issues, but that's another thing)
>
> Currently my system uses a couple of Hauppage BT878 cards (WinTV-Go
> Plus) and I really would like to phase those out when I upgrade to
> 0.21. The hardware is an almost matched set of systems. They are both
> Intel 854G boards with P4 processors. One has a 2.4, and the other a
> 2.8HT. Both have a gig of ram. I have OpenSUSE 10.3 on my second
> (SBE) system, and Fedora6 (about to get nuked in favor of SUSE, I
> think) on the MBE. I've been a RedHat user since RedHat 5.0, but have
> found openSUSE to be much easier to setup/configure.
>
> So, that being said, what kind of cards you suggest?
>
> ~Jon
> _______________________________________________
The HVR's from Hauppauge are low cost options, and from what I've read
support recently went into the kernel (2.6.25 will have it), so:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116006 $65
for the USB option or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116007 $95
for the PCI option or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116016 $100
for the PCI-e x1 option
-Chad
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