Re: PCI/e with dual DVB-T + AV-in?

[Jed <jedi.theone@gmail.com>]

Steven Toth wrote:
> On 9/8/09 4:04 PM, Jed wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ya'll,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Going on response levels thus far I'm not expecting much :-D but I
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> wondering if someone could possibly help me out here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there anything with half-decent driver support that is PCI/e,
>>>>>>> and has
>>>>>>> dual DVB-T + A/V-in?*
>>>>>>> As a bonus it would be dual Hybrid and have hardware encode, but I
>>>>>>> wouldn't expect either to work at this stage.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm still trawling through mail-lists & wiki's etc, so I may yet
>>>>>>> find the
>>>>>>> best solution, but I was hoping some might already know.
>>>>>>> Any advice or even just a response to chastise me is greatly
>>>>>>> appreciated!
>>>>>>> :-D
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Jed
>>>>>>> *Is HVR-2200 the only option?
>>>>>>> I wish there was something with better AV-in but it might end-up
>>>>>>> being my
>>>>>>> final choice.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jed wrote:
>>>>>> I've stopped looking for an alternative card, going to have a 
>>>>>> crack at
>>>>>> getting my 7162-based device working.
>>>>>> Still, any suggestions in the meantime are most welcome! I've also
>>>>>> decided
>>>>>> AV-in isn't that important...
>>>>>> So just a known, nicely working PCI/e + dual DVB-T card, having the
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> features is nice but they needn't be working yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wish me luck! :-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HVR2200 is in well supported now for digital-only. It is a dual tuner
>>>>> board using a PCI-E interface. It has A/V capabilities that are not
>>>>> *yet* supported in Linux. Don't know when A/V will be supported, but
>>>>> it will probably happen, eventually.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a dual hybrid, and it does do hardware encode. (although not
>>>>> yet in Linux) This probably is the device for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> To follow the development more closely, see the blog on 
>>>>> kernellabs.com
>>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Hi saa7164 devs, once(if) the software support is in place for 
>>> A/V-in...
>>> Do you know if it'd be possible to bypass hw encode and dump
>>> uncompressed HD/SD with this card?
>>> Or is it limited hardware-wise to even do this?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jed
>> Hi, could I possibly get a response to this please?
>
> No idea, I have yet to look into this. All things considered I doubt 
> it's worth spending time on raw analog when the goal for most people 
> is to have the mpeg2/4/wmv hardware encoder working.
>
Huh, but Hauppaguge site says hvr-2200 only does mpeg2 encode?
My rationale was more flexibility by using software encode and free cpu 
cycles, I think it would be appealing to quite a few  ;-)

good night/morn