[mythtv-users] Suggestions for choice of hybrid tuners, probably USB based

[Nick Morrott]

On 15 April 2013 04:07, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:09:51 -0500, you wrote:

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> >In the meantime, I would like to acquire new tuners that will work with my
> >current analog signal, but also handle the digital input when I am forced to
> >switch. My motherboard has one PCIe X1 slot, and 2 PCI slots. One of the latter
> >can be replaced by a PCIe X16 card. As I need a minimum of 3 tuners and 4 is
> >preferred, I expect that external devices would be better.
> >
> >What are my options for such tuners that work with MythTV?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Larry
>
> I do not know of any USB analogue or hybrid tuners that do the MPEG
> encoding onboard as the PVR-500 does.  If you have a modern CPU (eg
> quad core) that might not matter, but with an older motherboard you
> may run out of CPU.

The external USB 2.0 Hauppauge HVR-1950 has an on-board MPEG-2 encoder
and is reported as being supported on Linux:

http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1950.html
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1950

On the downside it's only a single MPEG-2 encoder vs the two of the
PVR-500, and seems a bit on the expensive side.

Cheers,
Nick

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