[mythtvnz] Hauppauge HVR4000 - Sat + Analog working.

[Steve Hodge]

On 10/1/07, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

According to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_cx8800, cx8800 based cards do
have hardware encoding but it sounds like it's difficult to get it working.
>From what I can tell you need to use the cx88_blackbird drivers to get
hardware encoding.

Cheers,
Steve
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