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.



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