[AuckLUG] All about PVR cards ?

[Kent Wilkinson]

I'm not 100% on this, but I think they have to have hardware encoder to
get Microsoft certified.

cheers

Kent

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 04:16 +1300, Nevyn wrote:
> Not at all from personal experience on the basis that I've always gone
> for the BT8xx chipset just so that I can decode skytv uhf and watch
> the wrestling which I can't justify buying sky tv for, I've always
> understood that the PVR series of chipset is brilliant.
> 
> The best site for new zealand specific information on setting up the a
> PVR chipset (specifically the PVR-500) is:
> http://zaf.geek.nz/projects/mythtv/
> 
> I've been meaning to ask this question of the rest of this list for a
> while now. Does the MCE rating\name or whatever it is, mean that it's
> different in anyway whatsoever? Does a PVR-500 work in the same way
> and with the same settings etc. if it's a PVR-500 MCE?
> 
> On 12/8/06, Ronald Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> > Hi again all,
> >               Back with another tech prob thats a bit past me.I am
> > getting into PC TV such as Myth etc and would like to know of a safe PVR
> > card that will run with Fedora 5 on my PC.
> > I am looking at Hauppauge units which I have been told run with
> > Myth.Also I would like RF in and s-video in.
> > Any suggestions ?.
> > Regards
> > Ron.
> 
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