[wplug] MythTV

[Shane Liesegang]

I'm a little confused, but I think I follow.

It sounds like the PCHDTV 3000's issues with QAM are software based 
(meaning they could ultimately be corrected with better drivers) whereas 
the Air2pc cards have hardware limitations. Am I understanding you right?

Sounds like a good talk in June... unfortunately I won't be in town. :-( 
Ah well. Are you endorsing the PCHDTV 3000 then? Will that give the best 
flexibility for the future?

	- SJML

Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:40 -0500, Shane Liesegang wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know of any cards that can handle HD coming through cable or 
>>satellite? The MythTV site says that no such consumer-level cards exist, 
>>but it's been fairly out of date in the past...
>>
>>What advantages do you get with a PCHDTV card as opposed to, say, the 
>>ATI HDTV Wonder card?
>>
>>	- SJML
> 
> 
> HDTV over cable is encoded via QAM (as opposed to ATSC).  The Air2PC
> card supports QAM, but details have been sketchy about people using it,
> the company behind the Air2pc and Air2lan doesn't seem to be too
> responsive.  PCHDTV 2000 does not support QAM because it lacks the
> microcode for it.  The PCHDTV 3000 does have some preliminary QAM
> support when compiled using the DVB driver backend.  Supposedly the
> default drivers have QAM support too (new feature).
> 
> It's more likely that the Myth page is out of date.  These are new
> developments in the last few months.  For a good source of pchdtv info
> see: http://pchdtv.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> 
> If you're looking to buy an Air2PC card, check out http://mythic.tv/
> 
> Confused yet?  Consider this an ad for my GUM talk in June.  I'll try to
> explain it all then.
> 
> --Patrick
> 
> 
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