![]() ![]() Hopefully your new HTPC has a decent VGA card so it is up to the task of playing back live TV while you are setting up your PVR software. VisonTek sold a version of the same card and still sells a low-profile bracket that looks like it will fit The Diamond ATI TV Wonder HD 650 Tuner PCIE, which I have, might work too. ![]() The ASUS My Cinema-EHC3-150 offers a lot of extras for the price, although it is not as popular and has only one analog tuner plus one digital tuner. The Hauppauge HVR-2250 features 2 analog and 2 digital tuners (any 2 can be used at the same time), is supported by most PVR software and has a very large user community. All of your PCI-E cards offer that feature. PVR software support for hardware-MPEG-2 encoding is better too. Since you have a single core CPU, ideally you should get a card with MPEG-2 hardware encoding to take the burden of encoding in real time off your CPU. Multi-core CPUs are a better choice if the TV card does software encoding for analog. Is it possible to get an Electronic Programming Guide without a subscription?ĪTSC and QAM are usually recorded in their native MPEG-2 format, and place little load on your CPU. Are those features still available under a 3rd party software? Some cards come with a post capture converter that will rencode from Mpeg2 to Mpeg4. I am running Windows XP Home and don’t plan on upgrading any time soon. I don’t really know much about what software can do for a capture card(by comparison) so any info I can get with that would be cool. It seems so many people don’t really care for the software that is sent with the cards. I’ll have it connected to my PS3 via gigabit Ethernet for playback. ![]() ![]() Just to let you in on all of my plan, I’m using the PVR just for capture. If anyone has another card to mention please let me know. I’m listing PCI-e and PCI, as I could use both, but I would prefer PCI if I had a choice(if there is a PCI card out there that doesn’t suck). It looks like my options are limited when it comes to capture cards but I was wondering if there were any thoughts out there about the cards I’m going to mention for concideration. I want a capture card that does NTSC/ATSC/ClearQAM in hopes that I can create a homemade PVR(first attempt). I just bought a used Small Form Factor (P4 3.2GHZ, 1GB ram, no hard drive yet) Desktop that only takes low profile PCI cards. ![]()
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