[mythtv-users] PCI Express DVB-T card
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Tue Apr 28 10:07:52 UTC 2009
Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com
> <mailto:philwild at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I am going to purchase another DVB-T capture card and after checking
> my server last night I noticed that my only spare slot is a PCI
> Express slot. Looking through the wiki, I get the feeling this is not
> very well supported. Is there any personal experience out there that
> differs?
>
> Are USB style capture devices as good as actual cards? My gut feel is
> that they just can not be as good given the miniaturisation etc...
>
> '
>
>
> Your only worry with USB is whether or not it supports full multiplex
> grabbing. If you look at the PCI cards the chip isn't even the size of
> a stamp... there's no "not as good" going on.q
I thought I'd heard that generally the USB dongle-type capture cards
need a stronger signal than PCI cards. That not true?
P.
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