TV card

[Udi Finkelstein]

WinTV PVR-150 is an analog PVR card.
Stan was asking for a Digital terrestrial card.
Analog is going to die soon, and its frequencies are planned to be reused
for more digital channels.
In fact, the last official date for Analog turn-off is 2-2-2011 (yes, 10
days from now!)

Udi

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>wrote:

> On 23/01/11 16:04, Stan Goodman wrote:
>
>> I am considering installing a TV card in my desktop machine, to  enable me
>> to view programming of terrestrial digital TV stations. I would be
>> grateful for any remarks from users of such cards about reliability, ease
>> of installation, ease of use, availability of drivers, and other pertinent
>> characteristics. I would be interested in viewing video both on the
>> monitor, monitor in a partial screen, and sometimes through an existing
>> external analog TV receiver.
>>
>> Ability to record video is a secondary consideration for me, as far as I
>> can now predict.
>>
>>
>
> If the ability to record is secondary, I'd go with the simplest cards. I
> have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card, which is excellent for recording (I was
> actually too lazy to set up a full DVR - we record using a glorified "cat
> /dev/video0 >  show.mpg"), but it is much more difficult to watch live TV
> with it (couldn't get it to work, even though, in theory, /dev/video24
> should work just like with the dumb card).
>
> Be aware that if you use the card's build in encoder, you suffer a
> mandatory 1-2 seconds delay. Trying to watch the stream sooner than that,
> and you might reach a point where the output compresses so well that the
> card's encoder decides to keep it inside until it has enough data, and your
> player will reach the end of file and terminate. This means that even if
> your card is an encoding card, you will want to use the non-encoded output
> for watching live TV.
>
> Shachar
>
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