[mythtv-users] Hardware h264 via plug-in card?

[jedi]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:52:30AM -0700, Steve Heistand wrote:
> 
> > > If you pre-ordered, you spent $249 on a device that you still can't  
> > > use (not wanting to run unstable/experimental software) which is now
> > 
> >      That's pretty much true of MythTV in general. If you think otherwise
> > you're just kidding yourself. Meanwhile, some of us that were not scarred
> > for life by earlier experiences with ivtv or lirc are happily exploiting
> > the full potential of the Hauppauge 1212 in MythTV.
> 
> Im not happily exploiting 5.1 sound out of the thing yet. but from whats come
> out in the past couple of days its certainly breathing hard.

    I think Linux is exploiting it as well as anything at this point and 
I think that's the key thing here. A lot of us bought our 1212's thinking
that they would be soon sued out of existence and were pleasantly surprised
at how quickly things came along.

    Janne really deserves big Kudos in this regard.

> 
> but to be honest I rushed over to keyboard with CC in hand to preorder one
> if for the only reason to make sure I got one before hauppauge got sued.
> then once I got it working under mythtv I got another. now Im happily recording
> about 50 shows a week across the 2 units.  Its not certainly brain dead (flashing 12:00 
> on the vcrs) consumer level hardware yet but its as reliable and stable as everything
> else mythtv related. Best $500 I spent outside a strip club in ages.
> 
> 
> "Why is it so hot inside this handbasket?"
> --
> Steve Heistand
> steve at heistand.org
> 
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