[mythtvnz] Hauppauge HVR4000 - Sat + Analog working.

[Steve Hodge]

On 10/1/07, Daniel Williams <daniel.williams at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> >> General Comments:
> >> Card co-exists fine with a Skystar 2, and a SAA7134 based card
> (software
> >> capture).
> >> Having the system capture 4 channels at once (2 HW mpeg, 2 Software
> >> Mpeg4) leaves about 15% CPU idle on an AMD Sempron 3300+.
> >>
> >Hmmm. So the Analogue side of the HVR4000 doesn't have an MPEG-2 encoder
> >then?
>
> Not that I know of (or at least not that seems to work/supported by the
> linux drivers).  The HVR4000 isn't exactly that well documented as to
> what works / howtos for linux.
>
> >Damn.. That is a real pain. If we are going to deal with HD H264 720p
> >playback of DTT we need a HW analogue card for Sky/UHF or there isn't
> >much grunt left.
>
> As far as I know, there is only 1 MPEG encoder on the card, which is
> shared between either DVB-S or DVB-T.


DVB does not require an MPEG encoder - the signal is already an MPEG stream
when the card receives it. So if there is an MPEG encoder on the card it's
for analogue.

Cheers,
Steve
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