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==Graphics cards== ...rated support, they are generally easy to install and reliable. Preferred hardware is anything 8000-series or newer.

'''Video capture cards''' are used to get the picture from the cable, aerial, or satellite televis ...llite STB which tunes the channel). Sometimes people mistake video capture cards with [[video display card]]s which provide the output to the (tv)screen.

This article gives an overview of the '''hardware''' requirements for a MythTV system. ===Video capture card===

* [http://www.arts-project.org aRts]: Analog Realtime Synthesizer ...PDIF or IEC958 Connector. The device name for this connector is typically "cards.pcm.iec958". So just configure this device as the audio device in MythTV.

= Hardware Requirements = Most PCI video capture cards lack OSX drivers, so the Mac OS X backend does not support the majority of

For information on hardware used by users to play back HD content, please see (and update) [[HD Playbac ...ting the original digital data. Unlike analog television capture, where a hardware encoder is desirable, compression of High Definition material takes place a

... MythTV supports both standards and can be received using a standard DVB-T capture card. ...od; therefore, MythTV users must capture these channels via the STB with a analog card (PVR-150/PVR-500 or HD-PVR).

{{Capture card info The Hauppauge PVR-250 is a PCI-based video tuner card which features hardware-accellerated video and audio compression. There are several slightly diffe

... MPEG 4) video compression processors. As opposed to [[Analog Framebuffer Cards]], they take up much less processor horsepower, since the CPU doesn't have See [[Analog Hardware Encoder Cards]] for a list of cards for which a description exists on this wiki!

...]]''': Linux [http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html driver] for TV tuner cards using the bt848 and bt878 chips ...ly of MPEG codecs; most commonly used with Hauppauge's PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards.

{{Capture card info ...ompression. Technically the card is functionally identical to two PVR-150 cards on their own PCI bridge in one socket, and requiring only one coaxial conne

... only the higher frequency channels if your system is a hybrid system with analog channels utilizing the lower frequencies. ...ect] containing the digital channels you intend to receive. Do not include analog channels nor any channels which you cannot or do not receive. You may have

... film (24 frames per second). Broadcasters who use ATSC and must retain an analog signal have to broadcast on two separate channels, as the ATSC system requi ==ATSC "HDTV" Capture Card Questions==

== Hardware Questions == ...ry installing a PVR application on Windows before you got your video card, capture card, and audio system working perfectly. Don't try to do it on Linux.

{{Capture card info The Hauppauge PVR-150 is a PCI-based video tuner card which features hardware-accellerated video and audio compression. The design for this model was ba

{{warning box|The Hauppauge PVR-350 mpeg2 hardware decoder (playback) is no longer supported since version 0.23 ( see http://s The Hauppauge PVR-350 is a [[video capture card]] manufactured by [http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350

...fferent sizes, and the fact that many MythTV systems have multiple capture cards--allowing for recording multiple shows at once. Note, also, that any time ...aving space available for writing (i.e. having 2 filesystems for 2 capture cards with one filesystem completely full and the other only half full will not h

...ler after we've rebooted, and are prepared to start installing drivers for hardware not supported natively by the kernel, we're going to set up a custom enviro Many MythTV installations require additional kernel modules to make all the hardware work. The ATrpms repository offers a package which downloads new kernel mod

...vicefiles. This would make the system much more stable when doing software/hardware upgrades that messes up the order the drivers gets loaded in and should be ...ata needed in the program table and also enable you to use a DVB-EPG for a analog card that can receive the same channel.

...al of this page is to outline the options available for dedicated frontend hardware based on the realities of television and retail video content at the beginn MythTV is intended to run dedicated on standard PC hardware, and has never been designed to be particularly miserly with memory. For st