On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:37:28AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > The WinTV PVR 250 has a hardware MPEG2 encoder, and as far as I can tell > it will ONLY capture in MPEG2. This makes it a foreign element to most > linux TV/video software. There's a driver for it, but most software will > not be able to deal with MPEG2. It also supports MPEG-1, and raw YUV capture. > MythTV is > working on support for it. See: ivtv.sourceforge.net www.mythtv.org It's well beyond the point of 'working on support', it's worked quite well for many moons. > > If you only plan on capturing MPEG2 video and/or only use MythTV, the > PVR 250 would be quite slick. Otherwise a BT848/878 card would be more > useful. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031005/46b44b4d/attachment.pgp