[mythtv-users] Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick

Raphael rpooser at gmail.com
Wed May 21 00:05:13 UTC 2008


Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:40 -0400, Raphael wrote:
> 
>> > 
>> > Well, in all honesty I don't know.  I just set it up as described in
>> > my wiki page, checked the recording profile and use it to record.
>> > Beyond that, it just works as I need it to - record what I tell you to
>> > record, when I tell you to record it...
>> > 
>> > I've run MythTV since .17 and have never really cared much about how
>> > it recorded this in what format, as long as 'it just works'.  Aside
>> > from patching the code to allow me 2 instances of V4L settings, I
>> > haven't done much customization or digging into MythTV.  I've found
>> > most of the default 'technical' settings 'just work'.
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>>
>> This card has no hardware encoder in it. It simply dumps the digital 
>> mpeg2 transport stream to your hard disk.
>> It's really not that amazing, and not too astonishing to achieve such a 
>> feat.
>> I've had one running since last November. The drivers I installed don't 
>> have support for analog reception. It also does not pick up QAM. This is 
>> OTA ATSC only.
>> HTH
>> Raphael
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Hmm, so what do I need with an encoder?  Since the digital signals are 
> in MPEG format I only need an encoder if I am watching analog?
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> CL
> 

That was my point ;)
With digital you don't need an encoder. So if you don't want to use this 
for analog, you have nothing to worry about. :)
Raphael


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