[wplug] MythTV

[Darin Ingimarson]

So if I want to only record HDTV and not ever play it back, I can go 
with the lower end machine?


;-)


>On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:24 -0500, Darin Ingimarson wrote:
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>>They are $169.98 ea with $9.98 ea off on orders of 5 cards or more.
>>Note that this card does NOT do any encoding, hence you need a beefier 
>>machine for this.
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>>I've been looking at building at PVR for about a year now. My wife keeps 
>>threatening to
>>go out and (gasp!) buy one!
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>Your correct in saying that the card doesn't do any encoding.  That's
>because HDTV doesn't need to do any encoding.  The card does a bit of
>decoding to get the stream (ATSC is well support and QAM is almost
>there).  HDTV is transmitted natively as MPEG-2 streams, so encoding is
>not necessary.  You could still watch it on a non-beefy machine by doing
>some transcoding to a smaller file size.
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>The correct statement is that you need a beefier machine for playback.
>Recording you just need to be able to save to the disk.
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>--Patrick
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