[TriLUG] Best HD/TV or Regular TV card for linux

[John Turner]

I gave up on HD playback using a PC before I even tried. But there  
are options.

I am currently using the I-O Data LinkPlayer 2
	http://www.iodata.com/usa/products/products.php? 
cat=HNP&sc=AVEL&pId=AVLP2%2FDVDLA
But there are many more options (hardware HD playback).

The problem is that is doesn't talk directly with MythTV, so you have  
to do something about that. The most common solution is to just link  
to your Myth recordings. The LP2 gets its show information from a web  
server (wizd and swisscenter are two Linux compatible servers).

Also I was able to run Mythfrontend on my Intel Core Solo Mac Mini  
and watch HD recordings and Live HD. This was a 512MB base model. It  
worked better than I expected, but not 100%.

John

On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:

> On 3/27/06, John Turner <jdturner at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> You might check out www.digitalconnection.com
>> I am using 2 DVICO FusionHDTV3 with the DVB driver in a Myth box.
>> I think the latest version is the FusionHDTV5.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> I just bought a HD5000 air2pc HDTV Capture card
> (http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=46), and thought I
> would share my experiences with it:
> Unless you have a very recent video card and a very fast CPU, video
> playback sucks, whether live or recorded.
>
> Before you jump on a HDTV capture card, play the clip at
> http://pchdtv.com/downloads/tst.tar in mplayer or xine on your target
> system.  (Note that it's an mpeg stream, not a tar file as the url
> implies).
>
> I thought my Athlon XP 3000+ with 512MB ram and rinky-dink video card
> (ATI 7500 and Nvidia GeForce 2) would be fine, but it chews all my CPU
> and chops like crazy.  I just bought a new GeForce 6200A with HDTV out
> and it seems to be able to play that clip ok, but I haven't had a lot
> of time to really play.  My cpu usage still seems to be very very high
> though.  The nuts and bolts of it is: you need a really good mpeg
> decoder to do decode hdtv signals in realtime.
>
>
> As for the broadcast flag, I don't think any hardware got made that
> supports it.  If it did, the mfg jumped the gun.
>
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> Joseph Tate
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